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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: Remove relocations from kallsyms table
On 02/18/2014 06:24 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> Remove the ELF relocations from the kallsyms_address[] table.
> Instead we just store offsets to _text and relocate that while
> accessing the kallsyms table. This is done with a new
> kallsyms_offsets[] table. With these changes .tmp_kallsyms*.o
> becomes relocation free.
>
> In theory this would also allow to shrink the kallsyms table
> on 64bit by using offsets.
>

Why not do that, then?

-hpa




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