On 06/24/2013 12:37 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Aha, I see what's happening. For historical reasons, ARC Linux kernel stack > unwinder relies on .debug_frame (vs. .eh_frame) for stack unwinding. Being non > allocatable it would default to address zero hence the orig absolute > relocations > would work for most ports. However in our case we force it allocatable in > kernel > builds and thus it is relocated to 0x8abcdefg, thus the usage of absolute > relocations ends up generating the invalid reference. > > Thus it seems we do need the special section relative reference. > > Thanks a bunch for clarifying.
It seems like it would be easier to change the kernel to use .eh_frame rather than adding relocation types and changing the tool chain... r~
