[PATCH v8 1/3] riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 7:58 AM Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr> writes:
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> > +cc linux-kbuild, llvm, Nathan, Nick
> >
> > On 2/15/23 15:36, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> >> From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
> >>
> > I tried a lot of things, but I struggle to understand, does anyone have
> > any idea? FYI, the same problem happens with LLVM.

Off the top of my head, no idea.

(Maybe as a follow up to this series, I wonder if pursuing
ARCH_HAS_RELR for ARCH=riscv is worthwhile?)

>
> Don't ask me *why*, but adding --emit-relocs to your linker flags solves
> "the NULL .rela.dyn" both for GCC and LLVM.
>
> The downside is that you end up with a bunch of .rela cruft in your
> vmlinux.

There was a patch just this week to use $(OBJCOPY) to strip these from
vmlinux (for x86). Looks like x86 uses --emit-relocs for KASLR:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230320121006.4863-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com/
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers