From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21] helo=orsmga101.jf.intel.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1M2C3W-0008Sn-Bf for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 22:27:13 +0000 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [PATCH 01/14] x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:26:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1241735222-6640-2-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1241735222-6640-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> References: <1241735222-6640-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, hbabu@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, ying.huang@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, sam@ravnborg.org, tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com From: H. Peter Anvin Aligning the .bss section makes it trivially faster, and makes using larger transfers for the clear slightly easier. [ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S index 0d26c92..27c168d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.data.*) _edata = . ; } + . = ALIGN(32); .bss : { _bss = . ; *(.bss) -- 1.6.0.6 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec