linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed
Tejun Heo 46176b4f6b x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
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>
2009-05-25 22:52:49 -07:00
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.gitignore .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
Makefile x86, setup: compile with -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING 2009-04-03 16:34:45 +02:00
head_32.S Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
head_64.S Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
misc.c bzip2/lzma: x86 kernel compression support 2009-01-04 15:53:35 -08:00
relocs.c x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries 2009-05-25 22:52:49 -07:00
vmlinux.scr x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.scr 2008-01-30 13:33:38 +01:00
vmlinux_32.lds x86: switch to .rodata.compressed in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.scr 2008-01-30 13:33:38 +01:00
vmlinux_64.lds x86: cleanup: change _end to end_before_pgt 2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00