[PATCH] arm64: Fix linker script entry point

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Fri May 16 10:26:01 PDT 2014


Change the arm64 linker script ENTRY() command to define _text as the
kernel entry point.

The arm64 boot protocol specifies that the kernel must be entered at the
beginning of the kernel image.  The existing ENTRY() command defined the
symbol stext as the entry point, which emitted an incorrect entry point,
but would not cause a runtime error because the existing entry code
immediately jumps to stext.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
---
Hi Will,

As requested, here is a fix for the linker script.  There are a lot of ways
we can define the entry point.  Let me know if you want to do it differently.

-Geoff

 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4ba7a55..f1e6d5c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #define ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(x)	x
 
 OUTPUT_ARCH(aarch64)
-ENTRY(stext)
+ENTRY(_text)
 
 jiffies = jiffies_64;
 
-- 
1.9.1






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