kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols, but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the relocation is often 0. http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html Inspired-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Tested-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Paul Mackerras