On i386, when CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is very large, it causes a confusing or misleading linker error message:
ld: kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE so expand this message to include the possibility that the problem could be due to CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> Cc: x...@kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-next-20201214.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ linux-next-20201214/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ SECTIONS * The ASSERT() sink to . is intentional, for binutils 2.14 compatibility: */ . = ASSERT((_end - LOAD_OFFSET <= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE), - "kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE"); + "kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE or CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START too large"); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 /*
