The current vmlinux.lds.S places the notes sections between the end of rw data and start of bss. This means that _edata doesn't really point to the end of data. Since notes are read-only, this patch moves them to the read-only segment so that _edata does point to the end of initialized rw data.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f5e5574..f8ab9d8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ SECTIONS RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) EXCEPTION_TABLE(8) + NOTES _etext = .; /* End of text and rodata section */ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); @@ -122,8 +123,6 @@ SECTIONS } _edata_loc = __data_loc + SIZEOF(.data); - NOTES - BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0) _end = .; -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
