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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100
commit968de4f02621db35b8ae5239c8cfc6664fb872d8 (patch)
tree9388da7f18f9511e1bbfeaf934cba8dbc696e9f4 /arch/i386/Kconfig
parentfd593d12770d4a0d1ff095d44b96436c18479ee8 (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel support
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 8ff1c6fb5aa..d588ca874bb 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -773,6 +773,18 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
PHYSICAL_START.
For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+config RELOCATABLE
+ bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
+ help
+ This build a kernel image that retains relocation information
+ so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
+ The relocations tend to the kernel binary about 10% larger,
+ but are discarded at runtime.
+
+ One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
+ must live at a different physical address than the primary
+ kernel.
+
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)