On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > > Alternatively, have you made any attempt to verify if actually replacing > >the setting for VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS would be safe? Glancing over its use > >there do not appear to be many places. > > Limited experiments showed it should be fine... > > But MIPS kernel has some design I'm not really familiar with like SYM32 for > 64-bit kernel and special address space design for Trap-and-emul KVM.
This only affects CONFIG_32BIT kernels, so SYM32 does not apply; I can't comment on KVM. There's still that bunch of: $(shell expr $(...) \< 0xffffffff80000000) constructs I mentioned before, so let's leave your change as it stands at this time. Please do rename the variable as I suggested though, I hope that's not a big deal. Maciej
