Re: [PATCH] arm64: head: Remove the instructions that get the virtual offset in __relocate_kernel

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Feb 28 2024 - 13:01:35 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:02:24PM +0900, Seongsu Park wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index cab7f91949d8..90db196f7c19 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -787,8 +787,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__relocate_kernel)
> */
> adr_l x9, __rela_start
> adr_l x10, __rela_end
> - mov_q x11, KIMAGE_VADDR // default virtual offset
> - add x11, x11, x23 // actual virtual offset
>
> 0: cmp x9, x10
> b.hs 1f

This code has been removed by commit 734958ef0b54 ("arm64: head: move
relocation handling to C code") in linux-next, so the patch is no longer
needed.

Thanks.

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Catalin