Since the bootloader may load the compressed x86 kernel at any address,
it should always be built as PIE, not just when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
Otherwise, linker in binutils 2.27 will optimize GOT load into the
absolute address when building the compressed x86 kernel as a non-PIE
executable.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Small wording changes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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