Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:50:08 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: Remove relocations from kallsyms table |
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 06:28:54AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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?
I tried it once, but it didn't boot for some reason. Didn't have time to track it down so I removed it. Could be done as followon work.
-Andi
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