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Thu, 07 May 2026 13:40:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Cromie Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 14:40:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] vmlinux.lds.h: remove redundant ALIGN(8) directives Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20260507-asm-generic-1-v2-4-47c52759d268@gmail.com> References: <20260507-asm-generic-1-v2-0-47c52759d268@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260507-asm-generic-1-v2-0-47c52759d268@gmail.com> To: Arnd Bergmann , Jason Baron , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie X-Mailer: b4 0.14.3 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; t=1778186409; l=3579; i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; s=20260203; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=jx+bBZ4Ea0N4OhMqfVeFfhxzER8rbH2ykIENWAaRjuk=; b=pR7CtcOVsz/BJFf7aRw2kJ2a7zTCHIBCb87JxHU2fPGeQjwnzIChkHSJ21YsYHax4e8ojTmtH J00exAM2qTUBTv19Axgq3IS2C8OhHFMt91rHN2t7VrhexpwvfiJFXdg 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 d3f20b411e16..d9d2eb708355 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES #define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION(_kprobe_blacklist) #else #define KPROBE_BLACKLIST() @@ -245,7 +244,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING #define FTRACE_EVENTS() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION(_ftrace_events) \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_ftrace_eval_map, _ftrace_eval_maps) #else @@ -262,7 +260,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS #define TRACE_SYSCALLS() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__syscalls_metadata, _syscalls_metadata) #else #define TRACE_SYSCALLS() @@ -277,7 +274,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON #define EARLYCON_TABLE() \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__earlycon_table, __earlycon_table, , _end) #else #define EARLYCON_TABLE() @@ -285,11 +281,9 @@ #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() @@ -315,7 +309,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI #define ACPI_PROBE_TABLE(name) \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table, \ __##name##_acpi_probe_table,, _end) #else @@ -324,7 +317,6 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL #define THERMAL_TABLE(name) \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(__##name##_thermal_table, \ __##name##_thermal_table,, _end) #else @@ -404,12 +396,10 @@ __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 @@ -454,7 +444,6 @@ *(.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