Bug 13935

Summary: Improper relocation of segments from ld-script
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Norm Dresner <ndrez>
Component: modutilsAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description Norm Dresner 2000-07-14 13:33:02 UTC 
I used the gcc-directive __attribute__ to assign an array to a new segment 
and an script with 'ld -r' to specify that this segment is to be located 
(but not loaded) at address 0x000D0000 (on the ISA-bus).  Using objdump I 
verified that the headers and compiled code in both the individual module 
and the "link" were correct in referencing a segment at the address I 
spercified.  When insmod loads this module it does not relocate this 
segment but simply assigns it to the next sequential address.  To verify 
that the compilation and linker-script were correct I created a module of 
stubs to satisfy the external references to kernel-globals and linked it 
without the '-r' option.  Examination of this module shows that references 
to the array were correct.  The exact version of modutils is 2.1.85-9
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-23 20:22:19 UTC 
Apologies for the delay. This sort of issue is probably best handled upstream.