From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sam@ravnborg.org (Sam Ravnborg) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v5 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86 In-Reply-To: <20171225205440.14575-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <20171225205440.14575-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20171225205440.14575-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20171225210502.GA635@ravnborg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.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 > Cc: Will Deacon > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > Cc: Paul Mackerras > Cc: Michael Ellerman > Cc: Martin Schwidefsky > Cc: Heiko Carstens > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > Cc: x86 at kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel > --- > 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