It would seem when building kernel modules with modern binutils
(required by modern GCC) for ARM v4T targets (specifically observed
with the Samsung 24xx SoC which is an 920T) R_ARM_V4BX relocations
are emitted for function epilogues.
This manifests at module load time with an "unknown relocation: 40"
error message.
The following patch adds the R_ARM_V4BX relocation to the ARM kernel
module loader. The relocation operation is taken from that within the
binutils bfd library.
Signed-off-by: Simtec Linux Team <linux@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds ELF section parsing for the unwinding tables in loadable
modules together with the PREL31 relocation symbol resolving.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Update to use the asm/sections.h header rather than declaring these
symbols ourselves. Change __data_start to _data to conform with the
naming found within asm/sections.h.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
As of 73bdf0a60e, the kernel needs
to know where modules are located in the virtual address space.
On ARM, we located this region between MODULE_START and MODULE_END.
Unfortunately, everyone else calls it MODULES_VADDR and MODULES_END.
Update ARM to use the same naming, so is_vmalloc_or_module_addr()
can work properly. Also update the comment on mm/vmalloc.c to
reflect that ARM also places modules in a separate region from the
vmalloc space.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add support for detecting non-executable stack binaries, and adjust
permissions to prevent execution from data and stack areas. Also,
ensure that READ_IMPLIES_EXEC is enabled for older CPUs where that
is true, and for any executable-stack binary.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Branches in the ARM architecture are restricted to a range of +/- 32MB.
However, the code in .../arch/arm/kernel/module.c::apply_relocate() was
checking offset against a range of +/- 64MB.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Welton <Kevin.Welton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
A simple patch to support module in nommu mode.
The vmalloc is used instead of __vmalloc_area which depends on CONFIG_MMU.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Daniel Jacobowitz
Handle new EABI relocations when loading kernel modules. This is
necessary for CONFIG_AEABI kernels, and also for some broken
(since fixed) old ABI toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fix sparse warnings in arch/arm/kernel/module.c,
arch/arm/mm/consistent.c, drivers/pcmcia/sa1111_generic.c,
and platform support files.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
