[PATCH 1/5] arm64: Fix __data_loc value

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Dec 13 13:17:25 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:46:47PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:39:45PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > The __data_loc variable should be set to the VMA of the data section, not
> > the LMA.
> > 
> > At present LOAD_OFFSET is not set and defaults to zero, so this bug
> > does not cause any problems.
> 
> Why does ARM64 have this in the first place?  __data_loc is used for
> XIP support on ARM, does ARM64 have XIP support?

Not a good reason, copy-paste leftover.

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Catalin



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