To circumvent an issue where placing the relocations inside the init
sections produces empty relocations, use --emit-relocs. But to avoid
carrying those relocations in vmlinux, use an intermediate
vmlinux.relocs file which is a copy of vmlinux *before* stripping its
relocations.
Suggested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329045329.64565-7-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Relocating kernel at runtime is done very early in the boot process, so
it is not convenient to check for relocations there and react in case a
relocation was not expected.
There exists a script in scripts/ that extracts the relocations from
vmlinux that is then used at postlink to check the relocations.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329045329.64565-6-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Alexandre Ghiti