[PATCH] arm: R_ARM_REL32 relocation support

[Mikael Pettersson]

Olof Johansson writes:
 > commit d0679c730395d0bde9a46939e7ba255b4ba7dd7c moved -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm to be
 > powerpc-only, causing R_ARM_REL32 to be used with some toolchains on ARM.
 > 
 > Implement support for it to make modules work with more toolchains.
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>

Michal Marek's patch(*) to use -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm already exists
and is IMO the correct solution in that it addresses the cause
of the problem rather than its symptoms.

NAK from me for now.

(*) http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/26/154

/Mikael

 > ---
 >  arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h |    1 +
 >  arch/arm/kernel/module.c   |    4 ++++
 >  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 > 
 > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h
 > index 51662fe..b1f1991 100644
 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h
 > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h
 > @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ typedef struct user_fp elf_fpregset_t;
 >  #define R_ARM_NONE		0
 >  #define R_ARM_PC24		1
 >  #define R_ARM_ABS32		2
 > +#define R_ARM_REL32		3
 >  #define R_ARM_CALL		28
 >  #define R_ARM_JUMP24		29
 >  #define R_ARM_V4BX		40
 > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
 > index c628bdf..ec9526d 100644
 > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
 > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
 > @@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ apply_relocate(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs, const char *strtab, unsigned int symindex,
 >  			*(u32 *)loc += sym->st_value;
 >  			break;
 >  
 > +		case R_ARM_REL32:
 > +			*(u32 *)loc += sym->st_value - loc;
 > +			break;
 > +
 >  		case R_ARM_PC24:
 >  		case R_ARM_CALL:
 >  		case R_ARM_JUMP24:
 > -- 
 > 1.5.6.5
 > 
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