This makes __prombss its own section, and for now store it in .bss. This will give us the ability later to store it elsewhere and/or free it after boot (it's about 8KB).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c index 306562d4d818..57762f19f136 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ #include <linux/linux_logo.h> /* All of prom_init bss lives here */ -#define __prombss __initdata +#define __prombss __section(.bss.prominit) /* * Eventually bump that one up diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 07ae018e550e..ac0ceb31b336 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ #else #define PROVIDE32(x) PROVIDE(x) #endif + +#define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS *(.bss.prominit) + #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h> #include <asm/cache.h> -- 2.17.1