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Commit 9e01e8fd authored by Peter Collingbourne's avatar Peter Collingbourne Committed by Alistair Delva
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UPSTREAM: 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>
(cherry picked from commit 5cf896fb6be3effd9aea455b22213e27be8bdb1d)
Bug: 137200966
Test: booted defconfig + CONFIG_RELR kernel on qemu
Change-Id: I4c55bf5b10bc6c934543c651eca9fc8e260ffc6d
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
parent ad15a425
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