[PATCH v2 1/3] module: Rename module_alloc() to text_alloc() and move to kernel proper

[David Laight]

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
> Sent: 14 July 2020 17:31
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> There is one arch (nios2), which uses a regular kzalloc(). This means
> that both text_alloc() and text_memfree() need to be weaks symbols and
> nios2 needs to have overriding text.c to do its thing.

That could be handled by an arch-specific inline wrapper in a .h file.

Although I actually suspect the nios2 code is just being lazy.
The processor is a very simple in-order 32bit soft cpu for Intel (Altera)
FPGA.

We have four nios2 cpu on one of our fpga images - all running small
(almost single function) code loops.
I can't imagine actually trying to run Linux on one to do anything
useful - clock speed is unlikely to be much above 100MHz.
We can't meet timing at 125MHZ (I've tried quite hard) so have
to run at 62.5MHz because of the PCIe clock.

	David

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