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Message-ID: <20170719184127.GA1285@amd>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:41:27 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 13/22] x86/power/64: Adapt assembly for PIE support

On Tue 2017-07-18 15:33:24, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
> 
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the
> KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>

(But not tested; testing it would be nice).
									Pavel
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