[PATCH 3/8] add mem64_min/max control

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I think you just need one of the PIC models, or the medium model.

ebiederm at xmission.com wrote:

>Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman
>> <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
>>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>> 64bit purgatory coming from kexec should be running with a page
>table
>>> that identity maps everything loaded by kexec and in practice all of
>>> memory.
>>
>> there is lots of R_X86_64_32 and R_X86_64_32S for 64bit purgatory.
>>
>> those come from global variables...could kill some by converting them
>static...
>>
>> but still have some global string or ro data....
>>
>> build one big file include all .S ?
>
>For R_x86_64_32 and R_x86_64_32S the problem is that the instructions
>are using absolute 32bit addresses.
>
>It is probably overkill but we should be able to solve this with
>by adding "-mcmodel=large" to the build of purgatory.
>
>Hopefully there are not 32bit or 16bit assembly routines getting linked
>in and using problemenatic instructions.
>
>Eric

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