[PVFS-users] PVFS and Opteron

[Rob Ross]

Hi Herbert,

I'll try to have a look at this soon if I can dig up an Opteron system 
here to play on :).  Thanks!  Sorry it isn't quite working.

Rob

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Herbert Huber wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> the 1.6.0 PVFS client seems not to work very well with our Opteron system.
> Any time I try to read a 10 gig file from PVFS I do get a kernel oops.
> The write case works fine however.
> 
> I've attached the output of ksysmoops to this mail.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Herbert
> 
> > Thanks Herbert.
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Herbert Huber wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > trying to load the pvfs kernel module on our dual Opteron system,
> > > running SLES 8.2 and kernel 2.4.23, fails
> > > with the following messages:
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.32
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.32
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.1
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.1
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.1
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Relocation overflow of type 10 for .rodata.str1.1
> > > /lib/modules/pvfs.o: Possibly is module compiled without
> > > -mcmodel=kernel!
> > > ......
> > >
> > > Compiling the kernel module with the "-mcmodel=medium" flag solves this
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Herbert
> > >
>