Currently we are using the .pad section to ensure the zImage file size aligned to 8 bytes.
But that is not needed when CONFIG_EFI_STUB enabled, as it would followed by a 512 bytes aligned .data section. Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <[email protected]> --- Changes in v2: Remove .pad section when CONFIG_EFI_STUB enabled as Russell King <[email protected]> suggested. arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S index b38dcef90756..394b2bf5d28a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ SECTIONS .got : { *(.got) } _got_end = .; - /* ensure the zImage file size is always a multiple of 64 bits */ - /* (without a dummy byte, ld just ignores the empty section) */ - .pad : { BYTE(0); . = ALIGN(8); } - #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB .data : ALIGN(4096) { __pecoff_data_start = .; @@ -91,6 +87,10 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(512); } __pecoff_data_rawsize = . - ADDR(.data); +#else + /* ensure the zImage file size is always a multiple of 64 bits */ + /* (without a dummy byte, ld just ignores the empty section) */ + .pad : { BYTE(0); . = ALIGN(8); } #endif _edata = .; -- 2.11.0
