Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] m68knommu: Clean up linker script using new linkerscript macros.

From: Greg Ungerer
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 01:56:42 EST


Hi Tim,

Tim Abbott wrote:
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This results in kernels that don't boot for me. I haven't done
any more debugging than to just try booting at this time.

Before this patch applied has:

vmlinux: file format elf32-m68k

Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00125ff0 40020000 40020000 00002000 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
1 .data 00012010 40145ff0 40145ff0 00127ff0 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
2 .init 0000c000 40158000 40158000 0013a000 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
3 .bss 0000a9ec 40164000 40164000 00146000 2**4
ALLOC
4 .comment 00001c56 00000000 00000000 00146000 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY


And after applied:

linux-2.6.x/vmlinux: file format elf32-m68k

Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00125ff0 40020000 40020000 00002000 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
1 .data 00012010 40145ff0 40145ff0 00127ff0 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
2 .init.text 0000aaac 40158000 40158000 0013a000 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
3 .init.data 00000b5c 40162aac 40162aac 00144aac 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
4 .init_end 000009f8 40163608 40163608 00145608 2**0
ALLOC
5 .bss 0000a9ec 40164000 40164000 00145608 2**4
ALLOC
6 .comment 00001c56 00000000 00000000 00145608 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY

Does that look like what you would have expected?

I suspect the problem may lie in the binary conversion of this
elf file to a raw binary for booting. This uses objcopy with
"-O binary". The resulting binary files are different in size
with and without the patch by about 2582 bytes. Suspicious
me thinks.

Regards
Greg



---
arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 41 +++++++++-------------------------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 2736a5e..b236133 100644
--- a/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
*/
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#if defined(CONFIG_RAMKERNEL)
#define RAM_START CONFIG_KERNELBASE
@@ -147,40 +149,19 @@ SECTIONS {
. = ALIGN(4);
_sdata = . ;
DATA_DATA
- . = ALIGN(32);
- *(.data.cacheline_aligned)
- . = ALIGN(8192) ;
- *(.data.init_task)
+ CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(32)
+ INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE)
_edata = . ;
} > DATA
- .init : {
- . = ALIGN(4096);
+ .init_begin : {
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_begin = .;
- _sinittext = .;
- INIT_TEXT
- _einittext = .;
- INIT_DATA
- . = ALIGN(16);
- __setup_start = .;
- *(.init.setup)
- __setup_end = .;
- __initcall_start = .;
- INITCALLS
- __initcall_end = .;
- __con_initcall_start = .;
- *(.con_initcall.init)
- __con_initcall_end = .;
- __security_initcall_start = .;
- *(.security_initcall.init)
- __security_initcall_end = .;
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
- . = ALIGN(4);
- __initramfs_start = .;
- *(.init.ramfs)
- __initramfs_end = .;
-#endif
- . = ALIGN(4096);
+ } > INIT
+ INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE) > INIT
+ INIT_DATA_SECTION(16) > INIT
+ .init_end : {
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_end = .;
} > INIT

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