Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 6 authors, 2016-03-18

Re: [v3,1/8] powerpc: Create a helper for getting the kernel toc value

From: Torsten Duwe <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-17 15:59:35
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:58:42AM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
To be honest I think my v6 works well, but I don't have complete confidence
due to the lack of proper testing. livepatch samples plus some others I wrote
and I one Petr wrote all work (calling patched from within patched),
I have outlined a failure scenario for you as a reply to v6 ;)

Question to all: would it be feasible to limit the size of a single module's
.text + TOC to let's say 8MB, and place modules at 10MB granularity? Then it
would be unambiguous: exactly iff the high 40 bits of (TOC-LR) are zero, both
belong to the same module.

	Torsten
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