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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:52:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping
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Hi,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:

> No, they aren't. x86-64 uses it because modules need to be in 32bit
> range from the main kernel and vmalloc is in a different area. I suspect
> it is the same on sparc64.

Ok, makes sense.

> > If it's supposed to be a generic function, it makes sense, otherwise we
> > could just put it into module.c.
>
> Ok, I will change it.

Any chance to use __HAVE_MODULE_MAP, so every arch (except sparc64/x86-64)
can automatically benefit from this?

bye, Roman

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