[PATCH] Move variables in ppc64 head.S from .data to .bss
authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:52:32 +0000 (14:52 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:53:34 +0000 (10:53 +1000)
The ppc64 head.S defines several zero-initialized structures, such as
the empty_zero_page and the kernel top-level pagetable.  Currently
they are defined to be in the data section.  However, they're not used
until after the bss is cleared, so this patch moves them to the bss,
saving two and a half pages from the vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S

index c7462fa..a0ff707 100644 (file)
@@ -1971,20 +1971,19 @@ _GLOBAL(smp_release_cpus)
 
 /*
  * We put a few things here that have to be page-aligned.
- * This stuff goes at the beginning of the data segment,
- * which is page-aligned.
+ * This stuff goes at the beginning of the bss, which is page-aligned.
  */
-       .data
+       .section ".bss"
+
        .align  12
-       .globl  sdata
-sdata:
+
        .globl  empty_zero_page
 empty_zero_page:
-       .space  4096
+       .space  PAGE_SIZE
 
        .globl  swapper_pg_dir
 swapper_pg_dir:
-       .space  4096
+       .space  PAGE_SIZE
 
 /*
  * This space gets a copy of optional info passed to us by the bootstrap