Re: Announcing the release of BLCR 0.6.0_beta1

From: Cedric Le Goater (clg_at_fr_dot_ibm_dot_com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 08:24:17 PDT

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    > Hmm, not 100% sure on that one.  There is code in
    > cr_module/cr_module.c:cr_init_module() that compares the addresses of
    > two symbols as probed from the System.map at configure time against
    > their addresses as resolved by the kernel's module linker/loader.  BLCR
    > refuses to load the module if these don't match, since it will be making
    > function calls to other addresses obtained in the same way (and we
    > really don't want to invoke code at random addresses in kernel context).
    > 
    > So, my best guess is that message means what it says, perhaps due to
    > BLCR's autoconf machinery locating the wrong System.map file.  You
    > should try comparing the output of
    >  $ grep register_chrdev /proc/kyms
    > against that of
    >  $ grep register_chrdev [MAPFILE]
    > where [MAPFILE] is the System.map file being used by BLCR (try "grep
    > LINUX_SYMTAB_FILE Makefile" in your BLCR build directory).  If they
    > match, then it is possible that something is happening with respect to
    > kernel linking/relocation that BLCR is not prepared to deal with.  If
    > they don't match then it might still be a relocation issue, but more
    > likely it means BLCR found the wrong System.map file.  If that is the
    > case, try passing --with-system-map=[WHATEVER] when configuring BLCR. 
    > Let us know what you find.
    
    hmm, the addresses in the /boot/System.map-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 file and 
    the ones from /proc/kallsyms (same kernel shipped by fedora) are
    different. weird. I'll investigate.
    
    >> what about glibc 2.6 ?    
    > 
    > What about it?  I don't have any systems running glibc 2.6.  If you have
    > specific problems (once past the System.map problem), please let us know
    > and we'll see what we can do to sort them out.
    
    I will as soon as i get that module loaded ! :)
    
    Thanks,
    
    C.
    

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