arm64: move elf notes into readonly segment
authorMark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:16:42 +0000 (16:16 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:34:09 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
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 <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

index f5e5574..f8ab9d8 100644 (file)
@@ -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 = .;