1. 26 May, 2009 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries · 46176b4f
      Tejun Heo authored
      For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
      relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
      image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
      The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
      relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
      needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
      R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
      error.
      
      When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
      binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
      changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.
      
      The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
      but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
      thing to do.
      
      The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.
      
      [ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      46176b4f
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