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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:04:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation for
 non-pie link
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:44 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19.x
> >
> > Thanks Arvind, good write up.  Just curious about this stable tag, how
> > come you picked 4.19?  I can see boot failures in our CI for x86+LLD
> > back to 4.9.  Can we amend that tag to use `# 4.9`? I'd be happy to
> > help submit backports should they fail to apply cleanly.
> > https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/179237488
> >
>
> 4.19 renamed LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS. For 4.4, 4.9 and 4.14 the patch
> needs to be modified, KBUILD_LDFLAGS -> LDFLAGS, so I figured we should
> submit backports separately. For 4.19 onwards, it should apply without
> changes I think.

Cool, sounds good.  I'll keep an eye out for when stable goes to pick this up.

tglx, Ingo, BP, can we pretty please get this in tip/urgent for
inclusion into 5.9?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers