When memory is tight, modules may need to be loaded into vmalloc()
space. The code then has to generate jump trampolines which enable
relocations between vmalloc space and physical address space.
The code had a bug that was freeing these trampolines even when the
module was successfully loaded.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
The mips reloc patch introduced new allocations which were done before
add_unformed_module but never freed them in case of an error. A new hook in
Linux 3.19 called module_arch_freeing_init can be used for freeing memory
which were allocated during this init phase.
The problem can be seen when trying to load a module (via busybox insmod)
when it was already loaded.
free -m
for i in `seq 1 100`; do
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/*/ath9k.ko >& /dev/null
done
free -m
This simple loop would leak ~3.2 MB.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com>
SVN-Revision: 46247
It currently does not seem to make a difference anymore, except by
increasing compressed kernel image size
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 45385
Felix Fietkau
John Crispin
Felix Fietkau
Hauke Mehrtens
Rafał Miłecki