On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Matt Hart reports that vf610m4_defconfig kernels grew to 2GB
> xipImage size after the __bug_table change.
>
> I tried out a few things and found that moving the bug table
> into the .data section avoids this problem. However, the
> linker script magic is beyond my capabilities here, so this
> is almost certainly not correct.
Well, before your patch the BUG_TABLE location as well as its runtime
functionality were completely wrong and broken.
> I've added a few people to Cc that understand this better
> than I do, hopefully someone can turn my bogus patch into
> a proper one.
Your patch isn't as bad as you make it, but maybe the following will
avoid open recoding BUG_TABLE locally:
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
index 8265b11621..21b4b29c2f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
@@ -237,13 +237,13 @@ SECTIONS
*/
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS
-
- _edata = .;
}
- _edata_loc = __data_loc + SIZEOF(.data);
BUG_TABLE
+ _edata = .;
+ _edata_loc = __data_loc + SIZEOF(.data);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
/*
* We align everything to a page boundary so we can
Nicolas
