linux-toradex.git/arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v2.6.32

m32r: add NOTES to vmlinux.lds.S to remove .note.gnu.build-id section

2009-11-03T23:33:23+00:00

Building with --build-id option, .note.gnu.build-id section is added
to vmlinux.bin.  But some old buggy binutils creates a huge vmlinux.bin,
and a bootloader fails to boot its zImage as well.

This patch adds a NOTES macro to a linker script vmlinux.ld.S to put
.note.gnu.build-id section into .note section.
Then, the .note section will be removed, because "-R .note" option is
specified in OBJCOPYFLAGS to make a vmlinux.bin binary.

Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata

m32r: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.

2009-09-22T15:29:40+00:00

This patch is largely a straightforward conversion.  One thing to note
is that the new macros use fewer separate output sections than the old
code; this should have no functional impact but is relevant for people
objdumping vmlinux files.

Also note that it moves the .data.init_task output sections inside
_edata.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata

m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack_top into .init.data section.

2009-09-22T15:29:40+00:00

Since these get squashed into the .data output section by the m32r
linker script, it seems likely that they don't need their own input
sections.

At Hirokazu Takata's suggestion, we place these structures in
.init.data rather than just placing them in .data (since they are only
used at init time).

This patch is preparation for cleaning up the m32r architecture to use
the new macros in vmlinux.lds.h; if these sections are indeed not
needed, then we can use the RW_DATA_SECTION macro for m32r and save a
bunch of redundant code.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata

m32r: Remove unused .altinstructions and .exit.* code from linker script.

2009-09-22T15:29:39+00:00

It appears that m32r copied the .altinstructions definition from x86
when the architecture was first merged into Linux.  m32r doesn't put
anything in .altinstructions, so this is just dead code.

The following block affecting .exit.text/.exit.data, which has a
comment also copied from x86, should also be deleted; the linker
script later discards the .exit.text and .exit.data sections.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata

linker script: unify usage of discard definition

2009-07-09T02:27:40+00:00

Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences.  This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.

This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro.  As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.

ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.

defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390.  Michal Simek tested microblaze.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Paul Mundt 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Tony Luck

linker script: throw away .discard section

2009-06-24T06:13:38+00:00

x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Ingo Molnar

m32r: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.

2009-04-26T16:20:38+00:00

This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

m32r: section noise in head.S

2008-11-30T18:03:37+00:00

usual "introduce .text.head, put it in front of TEXT_TEXT in vmlinux.lds.S,
make the stuff up to jump to start_kernel live in it", same as on other
targets.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

m32r: cleanup: drop .data.idt section in vmlinux.lds script

2008-04-29T05:46:00+00:00

The section .data.idt is not used at all - so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata

all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h

2008-01-28T22:21:17+00:00

This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data
and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in
the generic vmlinux.lds.h.

This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy
us much good.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg