Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Garnier <> | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:13:58 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 14/27] x86/percpu: Adapt percpu for PIE support |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 6:31 PM Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Thomas Garnier wrote: > > > The per-cpu symbols are in a section that is zero based to create > > offsets. The compiler doesn't see them as offsets but as relative > > symbol and try to relocate them. Given the distance between zero and > > the mapped kernel is much larger than the instruction offset range, it > > fails to do it. > > We switch that off in the linker. If that does not work with your > modifications then you need to figure out how to update the link > configuration. >
It didn't work originally but I will revisit to see if I missed something.
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