On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 08:50:30 +0000 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To avoid the need for relocating absolute references to tracepoint > structures at boot time when running relocatable kernels (which may > take a disproportionate amount of space), add the option to emit > these tables as relative references instead. > I gave this patch a quick skim over. It appears to not modify anything when CONFIG_HAVE_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is not defined. I haven't thoroughly reviewed it or tested it. But if it doesn't break anything, I'm fine giving you an ack. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Steve