Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 5 authors, 2017-12-29

[PATCH v6 1/8] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86

From: torvalds@linux-foundation.org (Linus Torvalds)
Date: 2017-12-27 19:55:01
Also in: linux-mips, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 7da3e5c366a0..49ae5b43fe2b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ SECTIONS
                CON_INITCALL
                SECURITY_INITCALL
                INIT_RAM_FS
-               *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss)     /* from the EFI stub */
+               *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss .init.discard.*)     /* EFI stub */
        }
        .exit.data : {
                ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
Weren't you supposed to explain this part in the commit message?

It isn't obvious why this is mixed up with the Kconfig changes, and
somebody already asked about it. The commit message only talks about
the Kconfig changes, and then suddenly there's that odd vmlinux.lds.S
change in there...

              Linus
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