Commit 779c88c9 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Russell King

ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup input section

This introduces a new .text.fixup input section that gets emitted
together with the .text section for each input object file.

Note that

  *(.text)
  *(.text.fixup)

is not the same as

  *(.text .text.fixup)

and we are looking for the latter, to ensure that fixup snippets that
are assembled into a separate section in the object file do not end
up out of range for the relative branch instructions it contains if
the .text section itself grows very large.

This helps prevent linker failures on large ARM kernels.
Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent c0978773
...@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ ...@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
#define TEXT_TEXT \ #define TEXT_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \ ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
*(.text.hot) \ *(.text.hot) \
*(.text) \ *(.text .text.fixup) \
*(.ref.text) \ *(.ref.text) \
MEM_KEEP(init.text) \ MEM_KEEP(init.text) \
MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \ MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \
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