From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:57:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 6746/1: remove the 4x expansion presumption while decompressing the kernel X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d239b1dc093d;p=mv-sheeva.git ARM: 6746/1: remove the 4x expansion presumption while decompressing the kernel We currently presume a 4x expansion to guess the decompressed kernel size in order to determine if the decompressed kernel is in conflict with the location where zImage is loaded. This guess may cause many issues by overestimating the final kernel image size: - This may force a needless relocation if the location of zImage was fine, wasting some precious microseconds of boot time. - The relocation may be located way too far, possibly overwriting the initrd image in RAM. - If the kernel image includes a large already-compressed initramfs image then the problem is even more exacerbated. And if by some strange means the 4x guess is too low then we may overwrite ourselves with the decompressed image. So let's use the exact decompressed kernel image size instead. For that we need to rely on the stat command, but this is hardly a new build dependency as the kernel already depends on many external commands to be built provided by the coreutils package where stat is found. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King --- diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile index 0a8f748e506..9d328be6e5e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -83,9 +83,11 @@ endif EXTRA_CFLAGS := -fpic -fno-builtin EXTRA_AFLAGS := -Wa,-march=all +# Provide size of uncompressed kernel to the decompressor via a linker symbol. +LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --defsym _image_size=$(shell stat -c "%s" $(obj)/../Image) # Supply ZRELADDR to the decompressor via a linker symbol. ifneq ($(CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR),y) -LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --defsym zreladdr=$(ZRELADDR) +LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --defsym zreladdr=$(ZRELADDR) endif ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y) LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8 diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in index 366a924019a..5309909d728 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in @@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ SECTIONS _etext = .; - /* Assume size of decompressed image is 4x the compressed image */ - _image_size = (_etext - _text) * 4; - _got_start = .; .got : { *(.got) } _got_end = .;