Change the assembly code to use only absolute references of symbols for the
kernel to be PIE compatible.

Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgar...@chromium.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S 
b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index 11eda21eb697..3320368b6ec9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ identity_mapped:
        movq    %rax, %cr3
        lea     PAGE_SIZE(%r8), %rsp
        call    swap_pages
-       movq    $virtual_mapped, %rax
+       movabsq $virtual_mapped, %rax
        pushq   %rax
        ret
 
-- 
2.20.1.495.gaa96b0ce6b-goog

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