linux-kernel - Re: [tip: x86/build] x86/vmlinux.lds.S: Remove conditional definition of LOAD

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:59:36 +0000
From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/build] x86/vmlinux.lds.S: Remove conditional
 definition of LOAD_OFFSET

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 02:18:33PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:39:58AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Wei Yang wrote:
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>> -#define LOAD_OFFSET __PAGE_OFFSET
>> -#else
>>  #define LOAD_OFFSET __START_KERNEL_map
>> -#endif
>
>And, as a next step, you can get rid of LOAD_OFFSET completely and use
>__START_KERNEL_map everywhere.
>
>Even less ifdeffery.

You mean remove the definition of LOAD_OFFSET?

I have tried this, but I found this is used in vmlinux.lds.h. So I don't
figure out a way to get rid of it.

>
>-- 
>Regards/Gruss,
>    Boris.
>
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