[PATCH] arm64: Fix linker script entry point
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon May 19 08:49:47 PDT 2014
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:26:01PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 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.
Looks good to me, thanks:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Will
> 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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