Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved

From: Mike Lothian
Date: Mon Aug 19 2019 - 09:21:42 EST


On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 14:08, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Mike Lothian wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 12:09, Mike Lothian <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > As it's related. I've raised
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204495 about the
> > > relocatition I'm seeing since switching back to ld.bfd - is this safe
> > > to ignore? I'm guessing this is why gold isn't working as it can't do
> > > them
> >
> > Sorry am I asking in the wrong place about this?
>
> No, but I haven't come around to look at it. As your mail above is not
> giving any useful information and requires to fire up a browser it got on
> the back burner.
>
> That bugzilla entry does not tell anything about the compiler involved, the
> binutils version and the .config file. I'm really bad at guesswork and my
> crystal ball got lost years ago :)
>
> Care to give that information here by mail?
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx

Hi

I'm using GCC 9.2, binutils 2.32. I used to use the gold linker but
I've just switched back to using ld.bfd based on this discussion

My .config can be found at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FireBurn/KernelStuff/master/dot_config_tip

Cheers

Mike