Re: [PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perfissues

From: Scott Wood
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 18:40:37 EST


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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