[RFT/RFC PATCH 5/6] ARM: move the .idmap.text section closer to .head.text
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Thu Mar 12 10:38:11 PDT 2015
This moves the .idmap.text section closer to .head.text, so that
relative branches are less likely to go out of range if the kernel
text gets bigger.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e3b9403bd2d6..2e7b2220ef5f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ SECTIONS
.text : { /* Real text segment */
_stext = .; /* Text and read-only data */
+ IDMAP_TEXT
__exception_text_start = .;
*(.exception.text)
__exception_text_end = .;
@@ -111,7 +112,6 @@ SECTIONS
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
- IDMAP_TEXT
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
*(.fixup)
#endif
--
1.8.3.2
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