** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ Certain kernel modules are unloadable (libceph & scsi_debug) due to the 
compiler generating unsupported relocations.
+ 
+ This symptom is similar to LP: #1533009 but, in that case it impacted
+ all modules, and the fix for that appears to remain in place.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
  With the hwe-z kernel:
  
  ubuntu@grotian:~$ sudo modprobe libceph
  modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'libceph': Exec format error
  ubuntu@grotian:~$ dmesg
  [66988.470307] module libceph: unsupported RELA relocation: 275
  
- This symptom is similar to LP: #1533009 but, in that case it impacted
- all modules, and the fix for that appears to remain in place.
+ [Regression Risk]
+ The scope of the fix is restricted to aarch64, so regressions should only 
impact the arm64 port of Ubuntu. Regressions could impact when literal loads 
are used - which may have performance impacts or possibly cause software to 
fail to build/run where it previously did. This is somewhat mitigated by the 
fact that this has been fixed in artful gcc-5/gcc-6 and used on our buildds for 
some time. Only "somewhat", because gcc-7 is now the default.

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  arm64: "unsupported RELA relocation: 275" loading certain modules

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