[PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jul 17 08:40:20 EST 2013


On 07/15/2013 03:47:06 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:04 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by
> > a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an
> > unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates
> > the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to
> > the calc
> 
> Scott, can somebody from FSL test that on 32-bit and Ack it ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.

It boots for me on e500mc and I can insert modules.

-Scott


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