This patch implements the kernel change commit 2f0f2a334bc38b61a9afca951185cd3844ee709d Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux(a)googlemail.com&gt; Date: Tue Jul 22 19:24:27 2008 -0500 module: turn longs into ints for module sizes This shrinks module.o and each *.ko file. And finally, structure members which hold length of module code (four such members there) and count of symbols are converted from longs to ints. We cannot possibly have a module where 32 bits won't be enough to hold such counts. For one, module loading checks module size for sanity before loading, so such insanely big module will fail that test first. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux(a)googlemail.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty(a)rustcorp.com.au&gt; in crash. Without the patch I was not able to open a core dump created with 2.6.27 on POWER. I think it's mostly a problem on big endian architectures, because on little endian you can have luck and read zeros which don't change the value of a number while on big endian you cannot have luck. ;-) Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle(a)suse.de&gt;