This v4 of my kallsyms base relative implementation is now a 3 piece series, since it caused some problems due to the way absolute symbols are handled by the absolute per cpu code. As it turns out, that code was probably wrong in the sense that it caused non-relocated symbol addresses to be emitted for values that are in fact relative to the address of the kernel text. Patch #1 fixes the scripts/kallsyms invocation to only pass the x86_64 specific --absolute-percpu option if CONFIG_SMP is also set. Patch #2 reworks the absolute percpu code to only emit those percpu symbols as absolute, and not symbols that have been classified as 'A' (absolute) by the linker, since that does not mean quite the same thing. Patch #3 is the original kallsyms base relative patch, with some modifications: - folded the s/ULLONG_MAX/-1ULL? change made by Andrew - ensured that the kallsyms_relative_base value itself is relocated as required. - dropped all of the acks and other tags, as they have become outdated with the recent changes to this patch. Ard Biesheuvel (3): x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table init/Kconfig | 16 +++ kernel/kallsyms.c | 38 ++++++-- scripts/kallsyms.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++--- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 6 +- scripts/namespace.pl | 2 + 5 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
