From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>,
Ulf Winkelvos <ulf@winkelvos.de>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] "efi: efistub: Convert into static library" and preparation patches
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:28:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54078807.7090408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9tejixb3Kb3YM_7sLcpKNuRHN+Dn+twFyCAXx99wYRCw@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/03/2014 12:57 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> I guess that is likely to work, I just wasn't aware it existed :-)
> I think adding another visibility(hidden) attribute or 2 would
> complete eliminate the need for GOT fixups, but I guess that is more
> sensitive to compiler versions being recent enough etc.
> The attached (build tested only) patch eliminates all GOT relocations
> under boot/compressed for a 64-bit EFI stub build.
>
This would be better. There is no reason to have a GOT in what is
inherently a monolithic binary.
Unfortunately -fvisibility=hidden doesn't seem to be enough.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-03 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 15:25 [REGRESSION] "efi: efistub: Convert into static library" and preparation patches Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-02 19:29 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-03 6:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-03 8:27 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-03 12:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-03 15:30 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-03 15:37 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-03 17:59 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-03 19:57 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-03 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-04 10:48 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-04 11:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-04 11:24 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-04 12:54 ` Michael Brown
2014-09-04 19:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-04 21:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-04 21:37 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-05 20:27 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-08 12:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-08 13:01 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-08 13:16 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-22 18:44 ` Josh Boyer
2014-09-22 21:07 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-22 21:24 ` Josh Boyer
2014-09-03 21:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 6:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-04 7:40 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-04 7:50 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-04 7:29 ` Matt Fleming
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