linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] arm: Add livepatch necessary arch selects into Kconfig

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Message-ID: <20170118133504.GL27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:35:04 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:     Abel Vesa <abelvesa@...ux.com>, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        jeyu@...hat.com, jikos@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com,
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        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] arm: Add livepatch necessary arch selects into
 Kconfig

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:40:23PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > @@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ config ARM
> >  	select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> >  	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
> >  	select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
> > +	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
> 
> I wrote it before but I think you cannot have both MODULES_USE_ELF_REL and 
> MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA.

ARM doesn't use RELA relocations, so it's pointless enabling them.

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