arm64: add support for building vmlinux as a relocatable PIE binary
This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, which links the final vmlinux
image with a dynamic relocation section, allowing the early boot code
to perform a relocation to a different virtual address at runtime.
This is a prerequisite for KASLR (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE).
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index c85c29d..fef3dc6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -787,6 +787,17 @@
select ARM64_MODULE_CMODEL_LARGE
select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
+config RELOCATABLE
+ bool
+ help
+ This builds the kernel as a Position Independent Executable (PIE),
+ which retains all relocation metadata required to relocate the
+ kernel binary at runtime to a different virtual address than the
+ address it was linked at.
+ Since AArch64 uses the RELA relocation format, this requires a
+ relocation pass at runtime even if the kernel is loaded at the
+ same address it was linked at.
+
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