Messages in this thread | | | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Date | Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:46:54 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] x86/boot: Remove run-time relocations from compressed kernel |
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:41:26PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > The compressed kernel currently contains bogus run-time relocations in > the startup code in head_{32,64}.S, which are generated by the linker, > but must not actually be processed at run-time. > > This generates warnings when linking with the BFD linker, and errors > with LLD, which defaults to erroring on run-time relocations in read-only > sections. It also requires the -z noreloc-overflow hack for the 64-bit > kernel, which prevents us from linking it as -pie on an older BFD linker > (<= 2.26) or on LLD, because the locations that are to be apparently > relocated are only 32-bits in size and so cannot really have > R_X86_64_RELATIVE relocations. > > This series aims to get rid of these relocations. I've build- and > boot-tested with combinations of clang/gcc-10 with lld/bfd-2.34, and > gcc-4.9.0 with bfd-2.24, skipping clang on 32-bit because it currently > has other issues [0]. >
Hi Thomas, Ingo, Borislav, would you be able to take a look over this series in time for 5.9?
Thanks.
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