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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev,
	Xuerui Wang <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] LoongArch: tools: Add relocs tool support
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:49:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78a4a6b0970c309daa336a2329e69d28df486552.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0e77716-9533-724a-2ea9-86bc5b52066c@loongson.cn>

On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 09:57 +0800, Youling Tang wrote:
> > > Unlike (pre-r6) MIPS, LoongArch has a complete support for PIC, and
> > > currently LoongArch toolchain always produces PIC (except, if -Wa,-mla-
> > > {local,global}-with-abs or la.abs macros are used explicitly).
> > > 
> > > So would it be easier to review and correct the uses of "la.abs" in the
> > > code, and make the main kernel image a real PIE?  Then we can load it
> > > everywhere w/o any need to do relocation at load time.
> 
> At the beginning I also wanted to make the main kernel image a real PIE
> and tried it, some of the "la.abs" can be modified, but I encountered
> difficulties in modifying the  exception handling code part, the kernel
> will not  boot after modification :(, I will continue to work hard try.

I just tried the same thing and get the same result :(.  Will spend
several hours reading the LoongArch manual about exception...

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-03 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-02 10:08 [PATCH 0/3] Add kernel relocation and KASLR support Youling Tang
2022-09-02 10:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] LoongArch: tools: Add relocs tool support Youling Tang
2022-09-02 11:10   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-02 11:27     ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-03  1:57       ` Youling Tang
2022-09-03 10:49         ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2022-09-03 16:23           ` Jinyang He
2022-09-03 16:53             ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-05  2:52               ` Youling Tang
2022-09-06  2:16                 ` Youling Tang
2022-09-06  5:17                   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-07 10:19                     ` Youling Tang
2022-09-08  2:44                       ` Youling Tang
2022-09-08  8:01                         ` Youling Tang
2022-09-22 11:19                           ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-09-23  9:56                             ` Youling Tang
2022-09-05  1:52             ` Youling Tang
2022-09-02 10:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] LoongArch: Add support for kernel relocation Youling Tang
2022-09-02 10:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] LoongArch: Add support for kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR) Youling Tang

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