[PATCH] RISC-V: Make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE user selectable

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Tue Oct 26 14:28:47 PDT 2021


From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>

This should really be up to the user, as it trades off portability for
performance.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 5dea03549493..f8a36034d54b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -212,18 +212,6 @@ config PGTABLE_LEVELS
 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
 	def_bool y
 
-config RELOCATABLE
-	bool
-	depends on MMU && 64BIT && !XIP_KERNEL
-	help
-          This builds a kernel as a Position Independent Executable (PIE),
-          which retains all relocation metadata required to relocate the
-          kernel binary at runtime to a different virtual address than the
-          address it was linked at.
-          Since RISCV uses the RELA relocation format, this requires a
-          relocation pass at runtime even if the kernel is loaded at the
-          same address it was linked at.
-
 source "arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs"
 source "arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas"
 
@@ -433,6 +421,18 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
 
 	  For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
 
+config RELOCATABLE
+	bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
+	depends on MMU && 64BIT && !XIP_KERNEL
+	help
+          This builds a kernel as a Position Independent Executable (PIE),
+          which retains all relocation metadata required to relocate the
+          kernel binary at runtime to a different virtual address than the
+          address it was linked at.
+          Since RISCV uses the RELA relocation format, this requires a
+          relocation pass at runtime even if the kernel is loaded at the
+          same address it was linked at.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu "Boot options"
-- 
2.33.0.1079.g6e70778dc9-goog




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