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From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:33:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] arm64: Add missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S
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Catalin,

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 17:08 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > The existing arm64 linker script uses some pre-defined section macros from
> > vmlinux.lds.h, all of which include a section load address attribute of
> > 'AT(ADDR(section) - LOAD_OFFSET)'.  LOAD_OFFSET is not defined for arm64, and
> > defaults to zero, so this mix of section attributions has no ill effect.
> > 
> > For consistency and to clear the way for a possible definition of LOAD_OFFSET
> > add any missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S.
> 
> So, what's the possible definition for LOAD_OFFSET on arm64?

Well, this is just intended as a cleanup for vmlinux.lds.S, but I think
a LOAD_OFFSET definition may be needed for kdump.

Takahiro, could you comment?

-Geoff