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Commit e05d4cd9 authored by Xi Ruoyao's avatar Xi Ruoyao Committed by Huacai Chen
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LoongArch: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocation

RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for
reducing the size of relative relocation records.  In a position
independent executable there are often many relative relocation
records, and our vmlinux is a PIE.

The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports
packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag
-z pack-relative-relocs.

Commits 5cf896fb ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel
with RELR relocations") and ccb2d173 ("Makefile: use -z
pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR.
We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in
relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records.

A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker
cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the
". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking
process).

With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and
vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller.

Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6d


Signed-off-by: default avatarXi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
parent 0ad158e4
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