From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763443AbZEGW1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:27:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756486AbZEGW1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:27:09 -0400 Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:36123 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752223AbZEGW1H (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:27:07 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,312,1239001200"; d="scan'208";a="410470409" From: "H. Peter Anvin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, ying.huang@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, sam@ravnborg.org, "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> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.6 In-Reply-To: <1241735222-6640-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> References: <1241735222-6640-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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