Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 27 December 2017 at 19:54, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> index 7da3e5c366a0..49ae5b43fe2b 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ SECTIONS
>>                 CON_INITCALL
>>                 SECURITY_INITCALL
>>                 INIT_RAM_FS
>> -               *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss)     /* from the EFI stub */
>> +               *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss .init.discard.*)     /* EFI stub */
>>         }
>>         .exit.data : {
>>                 ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
>
> Weren't you supposed to explain this part in the commit message?
>

Oops. Apologies, I indeed forgot to update the commit log.

> It isn't obvious why this is mixed up with the Kconfig changes, and
> somebody already asked about it. The commit message only talks about
> the Kconfig changes, and then suddenly there's that odd vmlinux.lds.S
> change in there...
>

Yeah. It doesn't make sense to respin right away for just that, so I
will give people some time to respond, and respin in a week or so.