android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Vivek Goyal 6569580de7 [PATCH] i386: Distinguish absolute symbols
Ld knows about 2 kinds of symbols,  absolute and section
relative.  Section relative symbols symbols change value
when a section is moved and absolute symbols do not.

Currently in the linker script we have several labels
marking the beginning and ending of sections that
are outside of sections, making them absolute symbols.
Having a mixture of absolute and section relative
symbols refereing to the same data is currently harmless
but it is confusing.

This must be done carefully as newer revs of ld do not place
symbols that appear in sections without data and instead
ld makes those symbols global :(

My ultimate goal is to build a relocatable kernel.  The
safest and least intrusive technique is to generate
relocation entries so the kernel can be relocated at load
time.  The only penalty would be an increase in the size
of the kernel binary.  The problem is that if absolute and
relocatable symbols are not properly specified absolute symbols
will be relocated or section relative symbols won't be, which
is fatal.

The practical motivation is that when generating kernels that
will run from a reserved area for analyzing what caused
a kernel panic, it is simpler if you don't need to hard code
the physical memory location they will run at, especially
for the distributions.

[AK: and merged:]

o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and
  avoid introducing absolute symbols.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:03 +01:00

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/* ld script to make i386 Linux kernel
* Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>;
*
* Don't define absolute symbols until and unless you know that symbol
* value is should remain constant even if kernel image is relocated
* at run time. Absolute symbols are not relocated. If symbol value should
* change if kernel is relocated, make the symbol section relative and
* put it inside the section definition.
*/
#define LOAD_OFFSET __PAGE_OFFSET
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/cache.h>
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386")
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(phys_startup_32)
jiffies = jiffies_64;
PHDRS {
text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5); /* R_E */
data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* R__ */
}
SECTIONS
{
. = __KERNEL_START;
phys_startup_32 = startup_32 - LOAD_OFFSET;
/* read-only */
.text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
_text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
*(.text)
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
*(.fixup)
*(.gnu.warning)
_etext = .; /* End of text section */
} :text = 0x9090
. = ALIGN(16); /* Exception table */
__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__start___ex_table = .;
*(__ex_table)
__stop___ex_table = .;
}
RODATA
. = ALIGN(4);
.tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__tracedata_start = .;
*(.tracedata)
__tracedata_end = .;
}
/* writeable */
. = ALIGN(4096);
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { /* Data */
*(.data)
CONSTRUCTORS
} :data
. = ALIGN(4096);
.data_nosave : AT(ADDR(.data_nosave) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__nosave_begin = .;
*(.data.nosave)
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_end = .;
}
. = ALIGN(4096);
.data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.idt)
}
. = ALIGN(32);
.data.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
}
/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
. = ALIGN(32);
.data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.read_mostly)
_edata = .; /* End of data section */
}
#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND
. = ALIGN(4);
.eh_frame : AT(ADDR(.eh_frame) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__start_unwind = .;
*(.eh_frame)
__end_unwind = .;
}
#endif
. = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE); /* init_task */
.data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.init_task)
}
/* might get freed after init */
. = ALIGN(4096);
.smp_altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.smp_altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__smp_alt_begin = .;
__smp_alt_instructions = .;
*(.smp_altinstructions)
__smp_alt_instructions_end = .;
}
. = ALIGN(4);
.smp_locks : AT(ADDR(.smp_locks) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__smp_locks = .;
*(.smp_locks)
__smp_locks_end = .;
}
.smp_altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.smp_altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.smp_altinstr_replacement)
__smp_alt_end = .;
}
. = ALIGN(4096);
/* will be freed after init */
. = ALIGN(4096); /* Init code and data */
.init.text : AT(ADDR(.init.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__init_begin = .;
_sinittext = .;
*(.init.text)
_einittext = .;
}
.init.data : AT(ADDR(.init.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.data) }
. = ALIGN(16);
.init.setup : AT(ADDR(.init.setup) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__setup_start = .;
*(.init.setup)
__setup_end = .;
}
.initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__initcall_start = .;
INITCALLS
__initcall_end = .;
}
.con_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.con_initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__con_initcall_start = .;
*(.con_initcall.init)
__con_initcall_end = .;
}
SECURITY_INIT
. = ALIGN(4);
.altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__alt_instructions = .;
*(.altinstructions)
__alt_instructions_end = .;
}
.altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.altinstr_replacement)
}
/* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references
from .altinstructions and .eh_frame */
.exit.text : AT(ADDR(.exit.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.exit.text) }
.exit.data : AT(ADDR(.exit.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.exit.data) }
. = ALIGN(4096);
.init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__initramfs_start = .;
*(.init.ramfs)
__initramfs_end = .;
}
. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
.data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__per_cpu_start = .;
*(.data.percpu)
__per_cpu_end = .;
}
. = ALIGN(4096);
/* freed after init ends here */
.bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__init_end = .;
__bss_start = .; /* BSS */
*(.bss.page_aligned)
*(.bss)
. = ALIGN(4);
__bss_stop = .;
_end = . ;
/* This is where the kernel creates the early boot page tables */
. = ALIGN(4096);
pg0 = . ;
}
/* Sections to be discarded */
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.exitcall.exit)
}
STABS_DEBUG
DWARF_DEBUG
NOTES
}