[PATCH 8/9] arm64: Add missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S
Geoff Levand
geoff at infradead.org
Tue Aug 26 12:33:13 PDT 2014
Catalin,
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 17:08 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > The existing arm64 linker script uses some pre-defined section macros from
> > vmlinux.lds.h, all of which include a section load address attribute of
> > 'AT(ADDR(section) - LOAD_OFFSET)'. LOAD_OFFSET is not defined for arm64, and
> > defaults to zero, so this mix of section attributions has no ill effect.
> >
> > For consistency and to clear the way for a possible definition of LOAD_OFFSET
> > add any missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S.
>
> So, what's the possible definition for LOAD_OFFSET on arm64?
Well, this is just intended as a cleanup for vmlinux.lds.S, but I think
a LOAD_OFFSET definition may be needed for kdump.
Takahiro, could you comment?
-Geoff
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