From 873b5271f878a11729fb4602c6ce967d0ff81119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:55:20 -0800 Subject: x86: Regex support and known-movable symbols for relocs, fix _end This adds a new category of symbols to the relocs program: symbols which are known to be relative, even though the linker emits them as absolute; this is the case for symbols that live in the linker script, which currently applies to _end. Unfortunately the previous workaround of putting _end in its own empty section was defeated by newer binutils, which remove empty sections completely. This patch also changes the symbol matching to use regular expressions instead of hardcoded C for specific patterns. This is a decidedly non-minimal patch: a modified version of the relocs program is used as part of the Syslinux build, and this is basically a backport to Linux of some of those changes; they have thus been well tested. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin LKML-Reference: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek Tested-by: Sedat Dilek --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f3f2104408d..f92a0da608c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -319,9 +319,7 @@ SECTIONS __brk_limit = .; } - .end : AT(ADDR(.end) - LOAD_OFFSET) { - _end = .; - } + _end = .; STABS_DEBUG DWARF_DEBUG -- cgit v1.2.3