linux/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Anup Patel 22e6a2e14c
RISC-V: Make BSS section as the last section in vmlinux.lds.S
The objcopy only emits loadable sections when creating flat kernel
Image. To have minimal possible size of flat kernel Image, we should
have all non-loadable sections after loadable sections.

Currently, execption table section (loadable section) is after BSS
section (non-loadable section) in the RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S. This
is not optimal for having minimal flat kernel Image size hence this
patch makes BSS section as the last section in RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S.

In addition, we make BSS section aligned to 16byte instead of PAGE
aligned which further reduces flat kernel Image size by few KBs.

The flat kernel Image size of Linux-4.20-rc4 using GCC 8.2.0 is
8819980 bytes with current RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S and it reduces to
7991740 bytes with this patch applied. In summary, this patch reduces
Linux-4.20-rc4 flat kernel Image size by 809 KB.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
2019-01-07 07:59:25 -08:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2012 Regents of the University of California
* Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*/
#define LOAD_OFFSET PAGE_OFFSET
#include <asm/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/cache.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#define MAX_BYTES_PER_LONG 0x10
OUTPUT_ARCH(riscv)
ENTRY(_start)
jiffies = jiffies_64;
SECTIONS
{
/* Beginning of code and text segment */
. = LOAD_OFFSET;
_start = .;
__init_begin = .;
HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
.exit.text :
{
EXIT_TEXT
}
.exit.data :
{
EXIT_DATA
}
PERCPU_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
__init_end = .;
.text : {
_text = .;
_stext = .;
TEXT_TEXT
SCHED_TEXT
CPUIDLE_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
ENTRY_TEXT
IRQENTRY_TEXT
*(.fixup)
_etext = .;
}
/* Start of data section */
_sdata = .;
RO_DATA_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
.srodata : {
*(.srodata*)
}
RW_DATA_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
.sdata : {
__global_pointer$ = . + 0x800;
*(.sdata*)
/* End of data section */
_edata = .;
*(.sbss*)
}
EXCEPTION_TABLE(0x10)
NOTES
.rel.dyn : {
*(.rel.dyn*)
}
BSS_SECTION(MAX_BYTES_PER_LONG,
MAX_BYTES_PER_LONG,
MAX_BYTES_PER_LONG)
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
DWARF_DEBUG
DISCARDS
}