[PATCH v2 2/4] riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at kernel.org
Tue May 23 09:55:00 PDT 2023


ALTERNATIVE mechanism can't work on XIP, and this is also reflected by
below Kconfig dependency:

RISCV_ALTERNATIVE
	...
	depends on !XIP_KERNEL
	...

So there's no .alternative section at all for XIP case, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 ------
 1 files changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
index eab9edc3b631..50767647fbc6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S
@@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		__soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .;
 	}
 
-	. = ALIGN(8);
-	.alternative : {
-		__alt_start = .;
-		*(.alternative)
-		__alt_end = .;
-	}
 	__init_end = .;
 
 	. = ALIGN(16);
-- 
2.40.1




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