aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstatshomepage
path: root/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c (follow)
AgeCommit message (Collapse)AuthorFilesLines
2012-05-18x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absoluteH. Peter Anvin1-3/+8
When the relocs tool throws an error, let the error message say if it is an absolute or relative symbol. This should make it a lot more clear what action the programmer needs to take and should help us find the reason if additional symbol bugs show up. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2012-05-18x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bugH. Peter Anvin1-1/+5
GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length. This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute symbols. Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as relative symbols. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
2012-05-18x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs toolH. Peter Anvin1-0/+797
A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'. This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel initialization, these relocation entries can be used to relocate the code properly. In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'. 16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code. Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable data references. They are declared in the linker script of the real-mode code. The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building an architecture. be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree. [ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently produces bad kernels. ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2012-05-18x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absoluteH. Peter Anvin1-3/+8
When the relocs tool throws an error, let the error message say if it is an absolute or relative symbol. This should make it a lot more clear what action the programmer needs to take. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-05-18x86, relocs: More relocations which may end up as absoluteH. Peter Anvin1-1/+5
GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length. This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute symbols. Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as relative symbols. This bug is exposed by checkin 433de739bbc2 x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool only in the sense that that checkin changes the relocs tool to report an error instead of silently generating a kernel which is broken if relocated. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
2012-05-18x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bugH. Peter Anvin1-1/+1
GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length. This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute symbols. Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as relative symbols. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
2012-05-08x86, realmode: move relocs from scripts/ to arch/x86/toolsJarkko Sakkinen1-0/+804
Moved relocs tool from scripts/ to arch/x86/tools because it is architecture specific script. Added new target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building an architecture. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-22-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>