From: Mark Salter Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:16:42 +0000 (+0100) Subject: arm64: move elf notes into readonly segment X-Git-Tag: next-20130912~145^2~6 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c80b7ee8520606f77fbc8ced870c96659053269e;p=karo-tx-linux.git arm64: move elf notes into readonly segment 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 Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f5e55747242f..f8ab9d8e2ea3 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 = .;