Messages in this thread | | | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Relocation (type 4) overflow on alpha for big module | Date | Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:07:13 +0300 |
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I decided to try btrfs on one of my alphas and got a surprise - btrfs module does not load:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'btrfs': Exec format error
dmesg has
module btrfs: Relocation (type 4) overflow vs btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier
Happens both natively on alpha: binutils 2.30.0 (Gentoo 2.30 p2) and gcc version 7.3.0 (Gentoo 7.3.0-r3 p1.4) or in cross-compiling: binutils (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.31.1 and gcc version 8.1.0 (Debian 8.1.0-12)
btrfs.ko has size 2939856. Build-in btrfs initializes and tests itself just fine.
This seems to have happened in the distant past: https://www.redhat.com/archives/axp-list/2005-March/msg00060.html
Do we have a similar binutils problem again with big modules?
-- Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
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