linux-kernel - Re: Absolute symbols in vmlinux

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Message-ID: <49B6CB84.8060404@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:20:20 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Absolute symbols in vmlinux_64.lds.S

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I have no complaint with that.  I believe the symbols are absolute
> simply because they were originally coded that way and the relocatable
> kernel work on x86_64 didn't need them to change.
> 

I have a vague memory of a bug in the x86-64 ld.

	-hpa

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