From: sam@ravnborg.org (Sam Ravnborg)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171225210502.GA635@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171225205440.14575-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Hi Ard.
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 08:54:33PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit
> relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the
> number of absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime
> by relocatable kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it
> for some architectures that should be able to support and benefit
> from it.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86 at kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
The change to arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S is
not justified in the changelog.
Did you add it by mistake?
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-25 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-25 20:54 [PATCH v5 0/8] add support for relative references in special sections Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86 Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 21:05 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2017-12-25 21:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] PCI: Add support for relative addressing in quirk tables Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] kernel/jump_label: abstract jump_entry member accessors Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-26 10:19 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-26 10:23 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] arm64/kernel: jump_label: use relative references Ard Biesheuvel
2017-12-25 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] x86/kernel: jump_table: " Ard Biesheuvel
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