On 4 September 2017 at 17:19, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

quoted

Replace the open coded PC relative offset calculations with a pair
of adr_l invocations. This ensures these quantities are invariant
under runtime relocation.

You probably should add that this patch must be applied on top of "ARM:
kernel: use relative references for UP/SMP alternatives" because of the
expected r3 value prior to that patch.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted>

Yes, that is why I needed to reorder them. I will add a mention to the
commit log.

Thanks,