Re: Error "Unknown relocation: 36" on module load on Sparc

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:05:41PM +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> FATAL: Error inserting scst  
> (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-sparc64/extra/scst.ko): Invalid module format
>
> The following message is immediately spit out by the kernel:
> [ 1686.676534] module scst: Unknown relocation: 36
>

The error is caused because gcc is generating a relocation type that the
kernel's module loader cannot handle.

This appears to be:
libelf/elf.h:#define R_SPARC_LM22               36      /* Low middle 22
bits of ... */

It doesn't occur when patched into the kernel build, since the
relocations are handled at link time as opposed to load time.

arch/sparc/kernel/module.c needs to be patched to support the new
relocation type... Based on binutils/gas/config/tc-sparc.c and gold's
sparc config this looks to be the same as the hi22 reloc...

Can you test the following patch?

regards, Kyle

---
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h
index e678803..8bf59f1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 #define R_SPARC_11		31
 #define R_SPARC_64		32
 #define R_SPARC_OLO10		33
+#define R_SPARC_LM22		36
 #define R_SPARC_WDISP16		40
 #define R_SPARC_WDISP19		41
 #define R_SPARC_7		43
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/module.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/module.c
index f848aad..49b1b21 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/module.c
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
 			*loc32 = (*loc32 & ~0x3ff) | (v & 0x3ff);
 			break;
 
+		case R_SPARC_LM22:
 		case R_SPARC_HI22:
 			*loc32 = (*loc32 & ~0x3fffff) |
 				((v >> 10) & 0x3fffff);
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