LLD by default disallows relocations in read-only segments. For a relocatable kernel, we pass -z notext to the linker to explicitly allow relocations. This behavior is the default for BFD.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/579 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Golovin <d...@golovin.in> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index 5f7c262bcc99..7214751e1671 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ else KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(shell $(LD) --help 2>&1 | grep -q "\-z noreloc-overflow" \ && echo "-z noreloc-overflow -pie --no-dynamic-linker") endif +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE), y) +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -z notext +endif LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -T hostprogs := mkpiggy -- 2.25.1
