Fix multiple errors in the comments, improve the wording, fix
indentation and clean up some areas reported by checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Gruber <clemens.gru...@pqgruber.com>
---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index c4bd0e2..14df54f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
/*
- * Helper macros to support writing architecture specific
+ * Helper macros to support writing architecture-specific
* linker scripts.
*
- * A minimal linker scripts has following content:
- * [This is a sample, architectures may have special requiriements]
+ * A minimal linker script has the following content:
+ * [This is an example, architectures may have special requirements]
*
* OUTPUT_FORMAT(...)
* OUTPUT_ARCH(...)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
* STABS_DEBUG
* DWARF_DEBUG
*
- * DISCARDS // must be the last
+ * DISCARDS // must be the last section
* }
*
* [__init_begin, __init_end] is the init section that may be freed after init
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
* [_stext, _etext] is the text section
* [_sdata, _edata] is the data section
*
- * Some of the included output section have their own set of constants.
+ * Some of the included output sections have their own set of constants.
* Examples are: [__initramfs_start, __initramfs_end] for initramfs and
* [__nosave_begin, __nosave_end] for the nosave data
*/
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@
#define STRUCT_ALIGNMENT 32
#define STRUCT_ALIGN() . = ALIGN(STRUCT_ALIGNMENT)
-/* The actual configuration determine if the init/exit sections
- * are handled as text/data or they can be discarded (which
+/*
+ * The actual configuration determines if the init/exit sections
+ * are handled as text/data or if they can be discarded (which
* often happens at runtime)
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___verbose) = .; \
*(__verbose) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___verbose) = .; \
- LIKELY_PROFILE() \
+ LIKELY_PROFILE() \
BRANCH_PROFILE() \
TRACE_PRINTKS() \
TRACEPOINT_STR()
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@
*(.data..init_task)
/*
- * Read only Data
+ * Read-only Data
*/
#define RO_DATA_SECTION(align) \
. = ALIGN((align)); \
@@ -406,20 +407,24 @@
} \
. = ALIGN((align));
-/* RODATA & RO_DATA provided for backward compatibility.
- * All archs are supposed to use RO_DATA() */
+/*
+ * RODATA & RO_DATA provided for backward compatibility.
+ * All archs are supposed to use RO_DATA()
+ */
#define RODATA RO_DATA_SECTION(4096)
#define RO_DATA(align) RO_DATA_SECTION(align)
#define SECURITY_INIT \
.security_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.security_initcall.init) -
LOAD_OFFSET) { \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__security_initcall_start) = .; \
- *(.security_initcall.init) \
+ *(.security_initcall.init) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__security_initcall_end) = .; \
}
-/* .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
- * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map */
+/*
+ * .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
+ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
+ */
#define TEXT_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
*(.text.hot .text .text.fixup .text.unlikely) \
@@ -427,17 +432,20 @@
MEM_KEEP(init.text) \
MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \
-
-/* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same
- * address even at second ld pass when generating System.map */
+/*
+ * .sched.text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
+ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
+ */
#define SCHED_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__sched_text_start) = .; \
*(.sched.text) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__sched_text_end) = .;
-/* spinlock.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same
- * address even at second ld pass when generating System.map */
+/*
+ * .spinlock.text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
+ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
+ */
#define LOCK_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__lock_text_start) = .; \
@@ -469,7 +477,7 @@
/* Section used for early init (in .S files) */
#define HEAD_TEXT *(.head.text)
-#define HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
\
+#define HEAD_TEXT_SECTION \
.head.text : AT(ADDR(.head.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
HEAD_TEXT \
}
@@ -557,7 +565,7 @@
}
/*
- * Allow archectures to redefine BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS to add extra
+ * Allow architectures to redefine BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS to add extra
* sections to the front of bss.
*/
#ifndef BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS
@@ -795,12 +803,13 @@
* The sections following CONSTRUCTORS are arranged so their
* typical alignment matches.
* A cacheline is typical/always less than a PAGE_SIZE so
- * the sections that has this restriction (or similar)
- * is located before the ones requiring PAGE_SIZE alignment.
+ * the sections that have this restriction (or similar ones)
+ * are located before the ones requiring PAGE_SIZE alignment.
* NOSAVE_DATA starts and ends with a PAGE_SIZE alignment which
* matches the requirement of PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA.
*
- * use 0 as page_align if page_aligned data is not used */
+ * Use 0 as page_align if page_aligned data is not used
+ */
#define RW_DATA_SECTION(cacheline, pagealigned, inittask) \
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
--
2.6.3
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