[PATCH v2 1/5] arm64: Rename page table BSS section to .bss..pgtbl

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 05:11:53PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> 
> Rename the .pgdir.bss section to .bss..pgtbl so that the compiler will
> notice the leading ".bss" and mark it as NOBITS by default (rather than
> PROGBITS, which would take up space in Image binary, forcing all of the
> preceding BSS to be emitted into the image as well). This supersedes the
> NOLOAD linker directive, which achieves the same thing, and can be
> therefore be dropped.
> 
> Also, rename .pgdir to .pgtbl to be more generic, as page tables of
> various levels will reside here.

This addresses the boot failure, I'm still seeing KUnit failures due to
an unrelated bug that was fixed post -rc1 but we get into actually
trying to run KUnit tests which was the relevant thing:

Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
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