From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from asavdk4.altibox.net ([109.247.116.15]:37399 "EHLO asavdk4.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23990433AbdLYVFTQdyFN (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:19 +0100 Received: from ravnborg.org (126.158-248-196.customer.lyse.net [158.248.196.126]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by asavdk4.altibox.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2062802DA; Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:05:03 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Ralf Baechle , Arnd Bergmann , Heiko Carstens , Kees Cook , Will Deacon , Michael Ellerman , Thomas Garnier , Thomas Gleixner , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Bjorn Helgaas , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Russell King , Paul Mackerras , Catalin Marinas , "David S. Miller" , Petr Mladek , Ingo Molnar , James Morris , Andrew Morton , Nicolas Pitre , Josh Poimboeuf , Steven Rostedt , Martin Schwidefsky , Sergey Senozhatsky , Linus Torvalds , Jessica Yu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86 Message-ID: <20171225210502.GA635@ravnborg.org> References: <20171225205440.14575-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20171225205440.14575-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171225205440.14575-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=eqGd9chX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=ddpE2eP9Sid01c7MzoqXPA==:117 a=ddpE2eP9Sid01c7MzoqXPA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=7CQSdrXTAAAA:8 a=wMNdZWldAAAA:8 a=hGzw-44bAAAA:8 a=VnNF1IyMAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=oGMlB6cnAAAA:8 a=VwQbUJbxAAAA:8 a=KKAkSRfTAAAA:8 a=bz6qZxWEvjXusb4KMuYA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=a-qgeE7W1pNrGK8U0ZQC:22 a=FUarYpL4UH3yWsho8X8J:22 a=HvKuF1_PTVFglORKqfwH:22 a=NdAtdrkLVvyUPsUoGJp4:22 a=AjGcO6oz07-iQ99wixmX:22 a=cvBusfyB2V15izCimMoJ:22 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 61580 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sam@ravnborg.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips 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@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