Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2014 06:28:54 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: Remove relocations from kallsyms table |
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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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