[PATCH v2] scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section
Alexandre Ghiti
alexghiti at rivosinc.com
Thu Apr 3 06:42:00 PDT 2025
riscv uses the .rela.dyn section to relocate the kernel at runtime but
that section is stripped from vmlinux. That prevents kexec to
successfully load vmlinux since it does not contain the relocations info
needed.
Fixes: 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
---
scripts/Makefile.lib | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cad20f0e66ee..0a1f1e67a0ed 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ quiet_cmd_objcopy = OBJCOPY $@
cmd_objcopy = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS_$(@F)) $< $@
quiet_cmd_strip_relocs = RSTRIP $@
-cmd_strip_relocs = $(OBJCOPY) --remove-section='.rel*' $@
+cmd_strip_relocs = $(OBJCOPY) --remove-section='.rel*' --remove-section=!.rela.dyn $@
# Gzip
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