On (08/14/17 11:52), Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays, > PCI fixups and tracepoints as relative references rather than absolute > references. This reduces the size by 50% on 64-bit architectures, but > more importantly, it removes the need for carrying relocation metadata > for these sections in relocatables kernels (e.g., for KASLR) that need > to fix up these absolute references at boot time. On arm64, this reduces > the vmlinux footprint of such a reference by 8x (8 byte absolute reference > + 24 byte RELA entry vs 4 byte relative reference) [..] a side note, checkpatch complaints quite a lot. -ss
