On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:38 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
[off-list ref] wrote:

Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit
relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the
number of absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime
by relocatable kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it
for some architectures that should be able to support and benefit
from it.

Are there actually architectures hat _don't_ support those relative
32-bit relocations? That really feels pretty fundamental.

I would have expected all of them to do it - is your selection of
arm64/powerpc/x86 perhaps more about "I have tested these" than about
anything else?

Because I'd almost prefer to just do the switch-over unconditionally
if that is at all possible?

             Linus