vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss
authorDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:08:00 +0000 (11:08 -0700)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:02:37 +0000 (11:02 +0200)
Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment
to minimize padding.

For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is
no change.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

index 4e2e1cc..d1ea7ce 100644 (file)
                *(.scommon)                                             \
        }
 
+/*
+ * Allow archectures to redefine BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS to add extra
+ * sections to the front of bss.
+ */
+#ifndef BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS
+#define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS
+#endif
+
 #define BSS(bss_align)                                                 \
        . = ALIGN(bss_align);                                           \
        .bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {                           \
+               BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS                                      \
                *(.bss..page_aligned)                                   \
                *(.dynbss)                                              \
                *(.bss)                                                 \