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Subject[BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils
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Hi,
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is broken with new binutils, which will make boot
panic. According to Lu Hongjiu, the affected binutils are from
2.20.51.0.12 to 2.21.51.0.3, which are release since Oct 22 this year.
At least ubuntu 10.10 is using such binutils. see:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327
The reason of boot panic is we have 'jiffies = jiffies_64;' in
vmlinux.lds.S. The jiffies isn't in any section. In kernel build, there
is warning saying jiffies is an absolute address and can't be
relocatable. At runtime, jiffies will have virtual address 0.
We can easily workaround this issue by moving jiffies to a section or at
least warn people if such binutils are using. what should we do?

Thanks,
Shaohua



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