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From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 08:26:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86/boot: Remove runtime relocations from
 compressed kernel
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
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On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:36 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 04:50:38PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:47 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 02:44:29PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Are those diffs correct when using "x86/boot: Correct relocation
> > > > destination on old linkers"?
> > > >
> > >
> > > It looks ok, but that patch (and even marking the other symbols .hidden)
> > > should be unnecessary after this series.
> >
> > You mean _bss, _ebss and _end?
> >
> > - Sedat -
>
> Yes. Those .hidden markings are there to ensure that when relocations
> are generated (as they are currently), they're generated as
> R_386_RELATIVE (which uses B+A calculation, with A being the link-time
> virtual address of the symbol, and stored in the relocation field)
> rather than R_386_32 (which uses S+A calculation, and so doesn't work
> without runtime processing). After this patchset there aren't any
> relocations, so while the .hidden markings won't hurt, they won't be
> necessary either.
>

Do you plan a change on this?

- Sedat -