linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2)

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Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:38:34 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:	"linux-parisc" <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Randolph Chung <randolph@...sq.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	John David Anglin <dave@...uly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2)

On Wednesday 31 December 2008 09:32:41 Helge Deller wrote:
> BTW, although the comment states that arches can change section sizes 
> in the module_frob_arch_sections() function:
> /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes.  */
> it will break horrible if you do so.
> What I found was, that if you change sh_size, at least the module
> references / dependency chain will break when running lsmod.

Well, you can change the size of NOBITS sections: other things are likely
to be less successful.  You could probably make them smaller, though.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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