linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section

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Message-Id: 
 <174672312974.2976395.10364863541225876459.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 16:52:09 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+linux-riscv@...nel.org
To: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
 palmer@...belt.com, alex@...ti.fr, bjorn@...osinc.com, masahiroy@...nel.org,
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 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section

Hello:

This patch was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>:

On Tue,  8 Apr 2025 09:28:51 +0200 you wrote:
> The .rela.dyn section contains runtime relocations and is only emitted
> for a relocatable kernel.
> 
> riscv uses this section to relocate the kernel at runtime but that section
> is stripped from vmlinux. That prevents kexec to successfully load vmlinux
> since it does not contain the relocations info needed.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3] scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/e9d86b8e17e7

You are awesome, thank you!
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