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Commit 5cf896fb authored by Peter Collingbourne's avatar Peter Collingbourne Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations

RELR is a relocation packing format for relative relocations.
The format is described in a generic-abi proposal:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg/discussion



The LLD linker can be instructed to pack relocations in the RELR
format by passing the flag --pack-dyn-relocs=relr.

This patch adds a new config option, CONFIG_RELR. Enabling this option
instructs the linker to pack vmlinux's relative relocations in the RELR
format, and causes the kernel to apply the relocations at startup along
with the RELA relocations. RELA relocations still need to be applied
because the linker will emit RELA relative relocations if they are
unrepresentable in the RELR format (i.e. address not a multiple of 2).

Enabling CONFIG_RELR reduces the size of a defconfig kernel image
with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE by 3.5MB/16% uncompressed, or 550KB/5%
compressed (lz4).

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 66cbdf5d
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