From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:07:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections In-Reply-To: <1453979254-25374-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <1453979254-25374-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <1453979254-25374-3-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org The EFI stub is typically built into the decompressor (x86, ARM) so none of its symbols are annotated as __init. However, on arm64, the stub is linked into the kernel proper, and the code is __init annotated at the section level by prepending all names of SHF_ALLOC sections with '.init'. This results in section names like .init.rodata.str1.8 (for string literals) and .init.bss (which is tiny), both of which can be moved into the .init.data output section. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel --- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index e3928f578891..cbf4db440e9c 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ SECTIONS CON_INITCALL SECURITY_INITCALL INIT_RAM_FS + *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss) /* from the EFI stub */ } .exit.data : { ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA) -- 2.5.0