> > Any reason we can't reuse the existing GOT fixup code in the early x86 > boot code? We're not executing it before the EFI boot stub atm, which is > the reason Maarten is hitting these difficulties. > > Maarten, does the following help? > > If not, Ard please go ahead with option #2 above. Overkill yes, but I've > done the single __attribute__() hacks in other projects and someone > (usually me) always eventually forgets to tag some instance. > I think we really have two options: either fix up the GOT (which may be a null operation, if the GOT is empty) or we add a compile-time check that the GOT is empty, lest we will keep having these problems. Since the GOT fixup loop is only a few instructions, it doesn't seem to be all that problematic to just do it -- but make sure we don't end up running it twice on any code path! -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
