Re: [PATCH 1/4] riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:12:08PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just to note, this series doesn't apply on top of -rc1 - what is the
base that you used?

Cheers,
Conor.

> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S | 6 ------
>  1 file 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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