From: Chaskiel Grundman arch/alpha/kernel/module.c:process_reloc_for_got(), which figures out how big the .got section for a module should be, appears to be confusing r_offset (the file offset that the relocation needs to be applied to) with r_addend (the offset of the relocation's actual target address from the address of the relocation's symbol). Because of this, one .got entry is allocated for each relocation instead of one each unique symbol/addend. In the module I am working with, this causes the .got section to be almost 10 times larger than it needs to be (75544 bytes instead of 7608 bytes). As the .got is accessed with global-pointer-relative instructions, it needs to be within the 64k gp "zone", and a 75544 byte .got clearly does not fit. The result of this is that relocation overflows are detected during module load and the load is aborted. Change struct got_entry/process_reloc_for_got to fix this. Acked-by: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/alpha/kernel/module.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/alpha/kernel/module.c~alpha-process_reloc_for_got-confuses-r_offset-and-r_addend arch/alpha/kernel/module.c --- devel/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c~alpha-process_reloc_for_got-confuses-r_offset-and-r_addend 2005-09-06 16:49:40.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c 2005-09-06 16:49:40.000000000 -0700 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ module_free(struct module *mod, void *mo struct got_entry { struct got_entry *next; - Elf64_Addr r_offset; + Elf64_Sxword r_addend; int got_offset; }; @@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ process_reloc_for_got(Elf64_Rela *rela, { unsigned long r_sym = ELF64_R_SYM (rela->r_info); unsigned long r_type = ELF64_R_TYPE (rela->r_info); - Elf64_Addr r_offset = rela->r_offset; + Elf64_Sxword r_addend = rela->r_addend; struct got_entry *g; if (r_type != R_ALPHA_LITERAL) return; for (g = chains + r_sym; g ; g = g->next) - if (g->r_offset == r_offset) { + if (g->r_addend == r_addend) { if (g->got_offset == 0) { g->got_offset = *poffset; *poffset += 8; @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ process_reloc_for_got(Elf64_Rela *rela, g = kmalloc (sizeof (*g), GFP_KERNEL); g->next = chains[r_sym].next; - g->r_offset = r_offset; + g->r_addend = r_addend; g->got_offset = *poffset; *poffset += 8; chains[r_sym].next = g; _