On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 07/18/17 15:33, Thomas Garnier wrote: >> The x86 relocation tool generates a list of 32-bit signed integers. There >> was no need to use 64-bit integers because all addresses where above the 2G >> top of the memory. >> >> This change add a large-reloc option to generate 64-bit unsigned integers. >> It can be used when the kernel plan to go below the top 2G and 32-bit >> integers are not enough. > > Why on Earth? This would only be necessary if the *kernel itself* was > more than 2G, which isn't going to happen for the forseeable future.
Because the relocation integer is an absolute address, not an offset in the binary. Next iteration, I can try using a 32-bit offset for everyone. > > -hpa > -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
