Re: [PATCH 01/14] x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> | 
> | 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
> | 
> 
> Hi Peter, should not it be ALIGN(8) rather? I thought
> we keep these sections as tight as possible in a sake
> of limitation of setup code size. Perhaps I miss something.
> 

This isn't the setup code at all.  This is the actual kernel, although
in its compressed form.  Furthermore, this is the bss, so it doesn't
affect the compressed image size.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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