linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/14] x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor

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Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 10:03:34 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vgoyal@...hat.com, hbabu@...ibm.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, ying.huang@...el.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] x86, boot: align the .bss section in the	decompressor

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> | 
> | diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> | index 0d26c92..27c168d 100644
> | --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> | +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> | @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SECTIONS
> |  		*(.data.*)
> |  		_edata = . ;
> |  	}
> | +	. = ALIGN(32);
> |  	.bss : {
> |  		_bss = . ;
> |  		*(.bss)
> | -- 
> | 1.6.0.6
> | 
> 
> Hi Peter, should not it be ALIGN(8) rather? I thought
> we keep these sections as tight as possible in a sake
> of limitation of setup code size. Perhaps I miss something.
> 

This isn't the setup code at all.  This is the actual kernel, although
in its compressed form.  Furthermore, this is the bss, so it doesn't
affect the compressed image size.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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