-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Daniel Silverstone upstream commit: 4731f8b66dd34ebf0e67ca6ba9162b0e509bec06 It would seem when building kernel modules with modern binutils (required by modern GCC) for ARM v4T targets (specifically observed with the Samsung 24xx SoC which is an 920T) R_ARM_V4BX relocations are emitted for function epilogues. This manifests at module load time with an "unknown relocation: 40" error message. The following patch adds the R_ARM_V4BX relocation to the ARM kernel module loader. The relocation operation is taken from that within the binutils bfd library. Signed-off-by: Simtec Linux Team Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/module.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ typedef struct user_fp elf_fpregset_t; #define R_ARM_ABS32 2 #define R_ARM_CALL 28 #define R_ARM_JUMP24 29 +#define R_ARM_V4BX 40 /* * These are used to set parameters in the core dumps. --- a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c @@ -132,6 +132,15 @@ apply_relocate(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs, cons *(u32 *)loc |= offset & 0x00ffffff; break; + case R_ARM_V4BX: + /* Preserve Rm and the condition code. Alter + * other bits to re-code instruction as + * MOV PC,Rm. + */ + *(u32 *)loc &= 0xf000000f; + *(u32 *)loc |= 0x01a0f000; + break; + default: printk(KERN_ERR "%s: unknown relocation: %u\n", module->name, ELF32_R_TYPE(rel->r_info)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/