On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 08:50:30 +0000
Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref] wrote:

To avoid the need for relocating absolute references to tracepoint
structures at boot time when running relocatable kernels (which may
take a disproportionate amount of space), add the option to emit
these tables as relative references instead.

I gave this patch a quick skim over. It appears to not modify anything
when CONFIG_HAVE_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is not defined. I haven't
thoroughly reviewed it or tested it. But if it doesn't break anything,
I'm fine giving you an ack.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

--  Steve