From: John David Anglin Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:34:34 +0000 (-0400) Subject: [PARISC] fix boot failure on 32-bit systems caused by branch stubs placed before... X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~7325^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed5fb2471b7060767957fb964eb1aaec71533ab1;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git [PARISC] fix boot failure on 32-bit systems caused by branch stubs placed before .text In certain configurations, the resulting kernel becomes too large to boot because the linker places the long branch stubs for the merged .text section at the very start of the image. As a result, the initial transfer of control jumps to an unexpected location. Fix this by placing the head text in a separate section so the stubs for .text are not at the start of the image. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index fa6f2b8..64a9998 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ SECTIONS . = KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START; _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */ - .text ALIGN(16) : { + .head ALIGN(16) : { HEAD_TEXT + } = 0 + .text ALIGN(16) : { TEXT_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT @@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.fixup) *(.lock.text) /* out-of-line lock text */ *(.gnu.warning) - } = 0 + } /* End of text section */ _etext = .;