From: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
To: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:46:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413034628.GA14727@gherkin.frus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170412073636.aak7onwt7b4furve@tower>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:36:36PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:57:52AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > On 12.04.2017 04:59, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > > Bottom line is, no kernel I've built since 4.9 can load a module. All
> > > attempts to load a module result in the error message emitted by
> > > "arch/alpha/kernel/module.c" as follows:
> > >
> > > module XXX: Unknown relocation: 1
> >
> > I assume it's due this commmit "modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities":
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71810db27c1c853b335675bee335d893bc3d324b
> >
> > For parisc this patch solves it:
> > parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f655322b1ba4bd46e26e307d04098f9c84df764
> >
> > > module XXX: Unknown relocation: 1
> >
> > For alpha it seems you need to add similar code to handle R_ALPHA_REFLONG
> > to apply_relocate_add() in arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
>
> Would the attached patch fix it? Untested because I don't see the
> above issue.
I'm up and running on 4.11.0-rc6. The patch works. Feel free to add me
as the "Tested-by". Much appreciated!
--Bob
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2017-04-12 2:59 ` [BUG] alpha: module xxx: Unknown relocation: 1 Bob Tracy
2017-04-12 5:57 ` Helge Deller
2017-04-12 7:36 ` Michael Cree
2017-04-13 3:46 ` Bob Tracy [this message]
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