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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, oe-lkp@lists.linux.dev,
	lkp@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] module: Make sure relocations are applied to the per-CPU section
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:39:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250605143900.GV39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <beb343ec-6349-4f9c-9fea-588b04eb49ee@suse.com>

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 03:44:23PM +0200, Petr Pavlu wrote:

> For instance:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Don't bother with non-allocated sections.
> 	 *
> 	 * An exception is the percpu section, which has separate allocations
> 	 * for individual CPUs. We relocate the percpu section in the initial
> 	 * ELF template and subsequently copy it to the per-CPU destinations.
> 	 */
> 	if (!(info->sechdrs[infosec].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) &&
> 	    infosec != info->index.pcpu)
> 		continue;

Right, and pcpu is a data section and should not have relative
relocations, only absolute.

So copying things should not be a problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-05 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-04  8:42 [linus:master] [rds] c50d295c37: BUG:unable_to_handle_page_fault_for_address kernel test robot
2025-06-04 11:04 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-04 15:27 ` [PATCH] module: Make sure relocations are applied to the per-CPU section Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-05  6:07   ` [PATCH v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-05 13:44     ` Petr Pavlu
2025-06-05 14:39       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2025-06-05 15:54       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-05 16:50         ` Petr Pavlu
2025-06-10 14:55           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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