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commit: 11f4b2116bc9e6d18182a796e0db1c30232e3e8c
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author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Mon Apr 17 11:19:24 2023 +0200
committer: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tue Apr 18 15:07:07 2023 +0200
tree: 5c06eeda36c2995fd30770462f95d8288c3b17fe
parent: 89aa35d701472bc7ea0070975e222b6df8fb02c9 [diff]

x86: Add support for linking the core kernel in PIE mode

Position Independent Executables (PIE) are linked in a way that permits
a dynamic loader or the executable itself to fix up all absolute
references in the executable image to a value decided at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

arch/x86/Kconfig[diff]
arch/x86/Makefile[diff]
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S[diff]
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c[diff]
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h[diff]
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c[diff]
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S[diff]
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S[diff]

8 files changed

tree: 5c06eeda36c2995fd30770462f95d8288c3b17fe