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a=ed25519-sha256; t=1780440488; l=3579; i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; s=20260203; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=+UeoPcUgk4vgSL6bIOBGSbmEMWJGj+kcMG3jKhNS13E=; b=8YvEAPoW9Zb0SdA8n29Rq4/x+ymnjVU2aF9GW/hlp7J8X4pImXdIV61FGkChWr4t0qJXiM8yF 7JUjhv70j7kA8WQegySLYFgP/s98yMXecJXL4zXvv+/zRUqWaGh7XSD X-Developer-Key: i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; a=ed25519; pk=C6E5ODlPQo7ZBynATXH9wg7K6HxP0pIXyf4s38Qw0XE= The BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL and BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL macros were recently updated to inherently enforce an 8-byte alignment. This makes the explicit '. = ALIGN(8);' statements preceding 'naked' macro calls in vmlinux.lds.h redundant. Remove these redundant alignment directives to clean up the file and clarify that the macros handle their own alignment padding. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 145beb14b94b..2b1becd809be 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES #define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION(_kprobe_blacklist) #else #define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() @@ -244,7 +243,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING #define FTRACE_EVENTS() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION(_ftrace_events) \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_ftrace_eval_map, _ftrace_eval_maps) #else @@ -261,7 +259,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS #define TRACE_SYSCALLS() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__syscalls_metadata, _syscalls_metadata) #else #define TRACE_SYSCALLS() @@ -276,7 +273,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON #define EARLYCON_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__earlycon_table, __earlycon_table, , _end) #else #define EARLYCON_TABLE() @@ -284,11 +280,9 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY #define LSM_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.lsm_info.init, _lsm_info, __start, __end) #define EARLY_LSM_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.early_lsm_info.init, _early_lsm_info, __start, __end) #else #define LSM_TABLE() @@ -314,7 +308,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI #define ACPI_PROBE_TABLE(name) \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table, \ __##name##_acpi_probe_table,, _end) #else @@ -323,7 +316,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL #define THERMAL_TABLE(name) \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_thermal_table, \ __##name##_thermal_table,, _end) #else @@ -403,12 +395,10 @@ __end_init_stack = .; #define JUMP_TABLE_DATA \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__jump_table, ___jump_table) #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE #define STATIC_CALL_DATA \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.static_call_sites, _static_call_sites) \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.static_call_tramp_key, _static_call_tramp_key) #else @@ -453,7 +443,6 @@ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) *(.data.rel.ro*) \ SCHED_DATA \ RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__tracepoints_ptrs, ___tracepoints_ptrs) \ *(__tracepoints_strings)/* Tracepoints: strings */ \ } \ @@ -947,12 +936,10 @@ /* Alignment must be consistent with (kunit_suite *) in include/kunit/test.h */ #define KUNIT_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.kunit_test_suites, __kunit_suites, _start, _end) /* Alignment must be consistent with (kunit_suite *) in include/kunit/test.h */ #define KUNIT_INIT_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.kunit_init_test_suites, \ __kunit_init_suites, _start, _end) -- 2.54.0