Re: [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote: > Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers. This commit message is too vague. A before/after example would make it a lot more clear why the change is needed. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mail

[PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support

Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers. Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the KASLR randomization range below 0x8000. Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier --- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 in