Commit fb24d9d9 authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool



commit 6520fe55 upstream.

A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

[ jsakkine: applied against 3.3.7 ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e2947ba0
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