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ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup input section
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:39:10 +0000 (10:39 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:11:55 +0000 (23:11 +0100)
commit779c88c94c34bd3b521da97b456a1aa51d870dec
tree27134b77a04643b5d69bfd71b6411a3ef22279a3
parentc097877319ab61dd045b6497953b4e3df8f2bb44
ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup input section

This introduces a new .text.fixup input section that gets emitted
together with the .text section for each input object file.

Note that

  *(.text)
  *(.text.fixup)

is not the same as

  *(.text .text.fixup)

and we are looking for the latter, to ensure that fixup snippets that
are assembled into a separate section in the object file do not end
up out of range for the relative branch instructions it contains if
the .text section itself grows very large.

This helps prevent linker failures on large ARM kernels.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h