LoongArch: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocation
RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for reducing the size of relative relocation records. In a position independent executable there are often many relative relocation records, and our vmlinux is a PIE. The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag -z pack-relative-relocs. Commits 5cf896fb ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations") and ccb2d173 ("Makefile: use -z pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR. We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records. A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the ". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking process). With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller. Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389 Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6dSigned-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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