[PATCH v2 27/31] arm64: Loadable modules
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Wed Aug 15 12:16:56 EDT 2012
On Wednesday 15 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Primarily branch relocation, we have a limitation to 128MB branch range.
> The alternative would be to always compile the modules with a large
> memory model but we may lose some performance and could make the
> relocation handling even harder. What we do now is pretty much similar
> to static linking but at module load time.
Ok, makes sense.
Arnd
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