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2009-05-25x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entriesTejun Heo
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel. The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs. R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered error. When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section, binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail. The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right thing to do. The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich. [ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-03x86 setup: correct segfault in generation of 32-bit reloc kernelH. Peter Anvin
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done incorrectly. This causes a segfault for some people when building the relocatable 32-bit kernel. Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-06-30x86: remove arbitrary ELF section limit in i386 relocatable kernelH. Peter Anvin
Impact: build failure in maximal configurations The 32-bit x86 relocatable kernel requires an auxilliary host program to process the relocations. This program had a hard-coded arbitrary limit of a 100 ELF sections. Instead of a hard-coded limit, allocate the structures dynamically. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2008-05-04x86: relocs ELF handling - use SELFMAG instead of numeric constantCyrill Gorcunov
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30x86 vDSO: absolute relocsRoland McGrath
This updates the exceptions for absolute relocs for the new symbol name convention used for symbols extracted from the vDSO images. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23x86: ARRAY_SIZE cleanupAlejandro Martinez Ruiz
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-11i386: move bootThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>