[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Thu Aug 15 01:05:28 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs
to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 08493689382881688b14e1f2bd33484000b3d6a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:03:31 +0100
Subject: ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs
commit b9b32bf70f2fb710b07c94e13afbc729afe221da upstream.
Use linker magic to create the vectors and vector stubs: we can tell the
linker to place them at an appropriate VMA, but keep the LMA within the
kernel. This gets rid of some unnecessary symbol manipulation, and
have the linker calculate the relocations appropriately.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 28 ++++++++++------------------
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index a4af8e8..c19779f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ ENDPROC(vector_\name)
1:
.endm
- .globl __stubs_start
+ .section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
__stubs_start:
@ This must be the first word
.word vector_swi
@@ -1162,24 +1162,16 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
vector_fiq:
subs pc, lr, #4
- .globl __stubs_end
-__stubs_end:
-
- .equ stubs_offset, __vectors_start + 0x1000 - __stubs_start
-
- .globl __vectors_start
+ .section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
__vectors_start:
- W(b) vector_rst + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_und + stubs_offset
- W(ldr) pc, .LCvswi + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_pabt + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_dabt + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_addrexcptn + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_irq + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_fiq + stubs_offset
-
- .globl __vectors_end
-__vectors_end:
+ W(b) vector_rst
+ W(b) vector_und
+ W(ldr) pc, __vectors_start + 0x1000
+ W(b) vector_pabt
+ W(b) vector_dabt
+ W(b) vector_addrexcptn
+ W(b) vector_irq
+ W(b) vector_fiq
.data
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 11c1785..f9036ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -148,6 +148,23 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_begin = .;
#endif
+ /*
+ * The vectors and stubs are relocatable code, and the
+ * only thing that matters is their relative offsets
+ */
+ __vectors_start = .;
+ .vectors 0 : AT(__vectors_start) {
+ *(.vectors)
+ }
+ . = __vectors_start + SIZEOF(.vectors);
+ __vectors_end = .;
+
+ __stubs_start = .;
+ .stubs 0x1000 : AT(__stubs_start) {
+ *(.stubs)
+ }
+ . = __stubs_start + SIZEOF(.stubs);
+ __stubs_end = .;
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
.exit.text : {
--
1.8.1.2
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