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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Feb 10 11:13:13 PST 2015


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:17:12AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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?

Yea, I forgot to remove it... It's gone now, but whether it gets picked
up by linux-next or not depends on a certain company fixing their core
internal UK network.  Somehow, I suspect it may take a couple of days
before it's visible in linux-next.

(sfr, don't panic if you can't pull my tree tonight.)

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