Hi Ard, On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:27:55PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays, > PCI fixups and tracepoints as relative references rather than absolute > references. This reduces the size by 50% on 64-bit architectures, but > more importantly, it removes the need for carrying relocation metadata > for these sections in relocatable kernels (e.g., for KASLR) that needs > to be fixed up at boot time. On arm64, this reduces the vmlinux footprint > of such a reference by 8x (8 byte absolute reference + 24 byte RELA entry > vs 4 byte relative reference) > > Patch #3 was sent out before as a single patch. This series supersedes > the previous submission. This version makes relative ksymtab entries > dependent on the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS rather > than trying to infer from kbuild test robot replies for which architectures > it should be blacklisted. > > Patch #1 introduces the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, > and sets it for the main architectures that are expected to benefit the > most from this feature, i.e., 64-bit architectures or ones that use > runtime relocations. > > Patch #2 add support for #define'ing __DISABLE_EXPORTS to get rid of > ksymtab/kcrctab sections in decompressor and EFI stub objects when > rebuilding existing C files to run in a different context.
I had a small question on patch 3, but it's really for my understanding. So, for patches 1-3: Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Thanks, Will
