Continuing kallsyms failures - large kernels, XIP kernels, and large XIP kernels

Tue Feb 10 00:17:12 PST 2015

Hello Russell,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 04:14:28PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 03:20:33PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > An unmodified 3.19.0-rc6 + efm32_defconfig boots just fine with XIP (and
> > > has to little RAM for holding the kernel image in it's 4 MiB RAM).
> > And btw next fails to build because of your patch
> > 51f36035999ca403d08304176bdfa288a549b50e. Maybe you can limit it to MMU
> > configs only to prevent false positives?
> 
> I'm intending to drop that patch; I think it's far too difficult to try
> and modify vmlinux.lds to be able to detect these kinds of overflows,
> which is a real shame.
I guess you didn't change your mind and just didn't come around yet to
drop this patch?

Best regards
Uwe

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