On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:57:15AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > I don't think I ever did, because its pretty much impossible to do as I > > explained in a follow up to this thread. > > > > We _used_ to do this with the userspace insmod methods, but since we got > > this kernel-side linker, it's been pretty much impossible to do without > > rewriting the module code. That's not going to happen on account of one > > quirky architecture which Linus doesn't particularly like. > > Still... We could try adding a hook in the generic module linker code > for a pre-relocation pass. Maybe only ARM would use it, but if the need > to load big modules is real then I imagine Linus could be amenable to a > compromise.
So, how big a table would you allocate for the trampolines, based upon not knowing anything about the module being loaded? 4K? 8K? 64K? -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
