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

[Guo Ren]

Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:10 AM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>
> ---
>  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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Best Regards
 Guo Ren