[parisc-linux] Panic on boot in 64 bit 2.6.6-rc1-pa0

[John David Anglin]

> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:27, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I think I know why.  The 64-bit linker only supports a single stub
> > table.  Things go bad when a branch can't reach its stub.  I hit this
> > when I was trying to implement tail calls.
> 
> That's a bit, um, unfortunate, given the current kernel predisposition
> for adding a new section for almost every new feature...
> 
> How hard would it be to fix this?  Surely all we really need is one stub
> table per text section in the final executable (linux still has only
> about five executable sections in the vmlinux.lds.S map).

I would guess a few days work, probably less if Alan Modra did it.
There's a model on how to do it in elf32-hppa.c.  Alan implemented
the 32-bit stub code.  It definitely should be done at some time.

Dave
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