Re: [PATCH 0/5] add support for relative references in special sections

2017-08-17 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 18 August 2017 at 07:29, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Hi Ard, > > On (08/18/17 07:12), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Hi Sergey, >> >> Thanks for taking a look >> >> On 18 August 2017 at 06:56, Sergey Senozhatsky >> wrote: >> > On (08/14/17 11:52), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> >> This adds support for em

Re: [PATCH 0/5] add support for relative references in special sections

2017-08-17 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
Hi Ard, On (08/18/17 07:12), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > Thanks for taking a look > > On 18 August 2017 at 06:56, Sergey Senozhatsky > wrote: > > On (08/14/17 11:52), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays, > >> PCI fixups a

Re: [PATCH 0/5] add support for relative references in special sections

2017-08-17 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Hi Sergey, Thanks for taking a look On 18 August 2017 at 06:56, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (08/14/17 11:52), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays, >> PCI fixups and tracepoints as relative references rather than absolute >> referenc

Re: [PATCH 0/5] add support for relative references in special sections

2017-08-17 Thread Sergey Senozhatsky
On (08/14/17 11:52), 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 n

[PATCH 0/5] add support for relative references in special sections

2017-08-14 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
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 sect