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ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs

Use linker magic to create the vectors and vector stubs: we can tell the
linker to place them at an appropriate VMA, but keep the LMA within the
kernel.  This gets rid of some unnecessary symbol manipulation, and
have the linker calculate the relocations appropriately.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King 12 years ago
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2 changed files with 27 additions and 18 deletions
  1. 10 18
      arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
  2. 17 0
      arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

+ 10 - 18
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S

@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ ENDPROC(vector_\name)
 1:
 1:
 	.endm
 	.endm
 
 
-	.globl	__stubs_start
+	.section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
 __stubs_start:
 __stubs_start:
 	@ This must be the first word
 	@ This must be the first word
 	.word	vector_swi
 	.word	vector_swi
@@ -1120,24 +1120,16 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
 vector_fiq:
 vector_fiq:
 	subs	pc, lr, #4
 	subs	pc, lr, #4
 
 
-	.globl	__stubs_end
-__stubs_end:
-
-	.equ	stubs_offset, __vectors_start + 0x1000 - __stubs_start
-
-	.globl	__vectors_start
+	.section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
 __vectors_start:
 __vectors_start:
-	W(b)	vector_rst + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_und + stubs_offset
-	W(ldr)	pc, .LCvswi + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_pabt + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_dabt + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_addrexcptn + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_irq + stubs_offset
-	W(b)	vector_fiq + stubs_offset
-
-	.globl	__vectors_end
-__vectors_end:
+	W(b)	vector_rst
+	W(b)	vector_und
+	W(ldr)	pc, __vectors_start + 0x1000
+	W(b)	vector_pabt
+	W(b)	vector_dabt
+	W(b)	vector_addrexcptn
+	W(b)	vector_irq
+	W(b)	vector_fiq
 
 
 	.data
 	.data
 
 

+ 17 - 0
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

@@ -148,6 +148,23 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__init_begin = .;
 	__init_begin = .;
 #endif
 #endif
+	/*
+	 * The vectors and stubs are relocatable code, and the
+	 * only thing that matters is their relative offsets
+	 */
+	__vectors_start = .;
+	.vectors 0 : AT(__vectors_start) {
+		*(.vectors)
+	}
+	. = __vectors_start + SIZEOF(.vectors);
+	__vectors_end = .;
+
+	__stubs_start = .;
+	.stubs 0x1000 : AT(__stubs_start) {
+		*(.stubs)
+	}
+	. = __stubs_start + SIZEOF(.stubs);
+	__stubs_end = .;
 
 
 	INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
 	INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
 	.exit.text : {
 	.exit.text : {