kbuild: Fix __start_SECTION, __stop_SECTION
In a discussion with Sam Ravnborg, the following problem became apparent: Most vmlinux.lds.S (but the ARM ones) used the following construct: __start___ksymtab = .; __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(__ksymtab) } __stop___ksymtab = .; However, the link will align the beginning of the section __ksymtab according to the requirements for the input sections. If '.' (current location counter) wasn't sufficiently aligned before, it's possible that __ksymtab actually starts at an address after the one __start___ksymtab points to, which will confuse the users of __start___ksymtab badly. The fix is to follow what the ARM Makefiles did for this case, ie __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __start___ksymtab = .; *(__ksymtab) __stop___ksymtab = .; }
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