Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Dec 25 2017 - 16:05:31 EST


Hi Ard.

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 08:54:33PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit
> relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the
> number of absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime
> by relocatable kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it
> for some architectures that should be able to support and benefit
> from it.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +

> arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
The change to arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S is
not justified in the changelog.
Did you add it by mistake?

Sam