On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:13:16AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:12:29PM -0600, Greg Satz wrote:

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The problem I ran into was making NFS as a kernel module. The resulting
sunrpc.o module crashed when insmod was run over it. Ralf's fix that all
compiles and links use -G 0 worked for me.

In that case, it is no linker bug. I believe -G 0 is required for
mips kernel modules.

Actually for all code; we don't support GP optimization in any of our code
models.

Even for the user space code? Do you have a testcase to show what
should be the desired behavior? As I understand, the SHN_MIPS_SCOMMON
section only appears in the relocatable files. You won't see it in
executables nor DSOs. Are there any problems with SHN_MIPS_SCOMMON
in .o files? Can we always pass `-G 0' to the assemebler for Linux.


H.J.