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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 39 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 53d57d17a89..a914411bced 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -9,6 +9,25 @@ ENTRY(_stext) +PHDRS { + kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */ + notes PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); + dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); + + /* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an + ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This + happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic + in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into + this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data + into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address). + + To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy" + segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a + non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the + "notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load + address will be zero. */ +} + #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common64) jiffies = jiffies_64; @@ -35,7 +54,7 @@ SECTIONS ALIGN_FUNCTION(); *(.text.head) _text = .; - *(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok) + *(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok __ftr_alt_*) SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT KPROBES_TEXT @@ -50,7 +69,7 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); _etext = .; PROVIDE32 (etext = .); - } + } :kernel /* Read-only data */ RODATA @@ -62,7 +81,13 @@ SECTIONS __stop___ex_table = .; } - NOTES + NOTES :kernel :notes + + /* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above + near PHDRS. */ + .dummy : { + LONG(0xf177) + } :kernel :dummy /* * Init sections discarded at runtime @@ -74,7 +99,7 @@ SECTIONS _sinittext = .; INIT_TEXT _einittext = .; - } + } :kernel /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time, * to deal with references from __bug_table @@ -125,6 +150,12 @@ SECTIONS *(__ftr_fixup) __stop___ftr_fixup = .; } + . = ALIGN(8); + __lwsync_fixup : AT(ADDR(__lwsync_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + __start___lwsync_fixup = .; + *(__lwsync_fixup) + __stop___lwsync_fixup = .; + } #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 . = ALIGN(8); __fw_ftr_fixup : AT(ADDR(__fw_ftr_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { |