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authorSuzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>2011-12-14 17:58:12 -0500
committerJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>2011-12-20 10:21:08 -0500
commit9c5f7d39a86316cd13baf973c90ed27f9f1cc979 (patch)
tree615117060a4b8b87cf1496abca0fe0365e845388 /arch/powerpc/Kconfig
parent239132454583d474932d8835f87a244f6f1bff9e (diff)
powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel
The following patch implements the dynamic relocation processing for PPC32 kernel. relocate() accepts the target virtual address and relocates the kernel image to the same. Currently the following relocation types are handled : R_PPC_RELATIVE R_PPC_ADDR16_LO R_PPC_ADDR16_HI R_PPC_ADDR16_HA The last 3 relocations in the above list depends on value of Symbol indexed whose index is encoded in the Relocation entry. Hence we need the Symbol Table for processing such relocations. Note: The GNU ld for ppc32 produces buggy relocations for relocation types that depend on symbols. The value of the symbols with STB_LOCAL scope should be assumed to be zero. - Alan Modra Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 8b323b7b0a61..2ad5ea827820 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -847,23 +847,30 @@ config DYNAMIC_MEMSTART
847 load address. When this option is enabled, the compile time physical 847 load address. When this option is enabled, the compile time physical
848 address CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is ignored. 848 address CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is ignored.
849 849
850# Mapping based RELOCATABLE is moved to DYNAMIC_MEMSTART 850 This option is overridden by CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
851# config RELOCATABLE 851
852# bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" 852config RELOCATABLE
853# depends on EXPERIMENTAL && ADVANCED_OPTIONS && FLATMEM && (FSL_BOOKE || PPC_47x) 853 bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
854# help 854 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && ADVANCED_OPTIONS && FLATMEM
855# This builds a kernel image that is capable of running at the 855 select NONSTATIC_KERNEL
856# location the kernel is loaded at, without any alignment restrictions. 856 help
857# 857 This builds a kernel image that is capable of running at the
858# One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel 858 location the kernel is loaded at, without any alignment restrictions.
859# must live at a different physical address than the primary 859 This feature is a superset of DYNAMIC_MEMSTART and hence overrides it.
860# kernel. 860
861# 861 One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
862# Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address 862 must live at a different physical address than the primary
863# it has been loaded at and the compile time physical addresses 863 kernel.
864# CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is ignored. However CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START 864
865# setting can still be useful to bootwrappers that need to know the 865 Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
866# load location of the kernel (eg. u-boot/mkimage). 866 it has been loaded at and the compile time physical addresses
867 CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is ignored. However CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
868 setting can still be useful to bootwrappers that need to know the
869 load address of the kernel (eg. u-boot/mkimage).
870
871config RELOCATABLE_PPC32
872 def_bool y
873 depends on PPC32 && RELOCATABLE
867 874
868config PAGE_OFFSET_BOOL 875config PAGE_OFFSET_BOOL
869 bool "Set custom page offset address" 876 bool "Set custom page offset address"