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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 02:31:36 +0000
From: Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/27] x86/percpu: Adapt percpu for PIE support
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> The per-cpu symbols are in a section that is zero based to create
> offsets. The compiler doesn't see them as offsets but as relative
> symbol and try to relocate them. Given the distance between zero and
> the mapped kernel is much larger than the instruction offset range, it
> fails to do it.
We switch that off in the linker. If that does not work with your
modifications then you need to figure out how to update the link
configuration.
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