It's much better to use PAGE_SIZE then magic 4096 (though it's almost synonym in most cases on x86 but not for *all* cases ;) Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov --- Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S 2008-02-09 22:27:13.000000000 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S 2008-02-17 18:08:57.000000000 +0300 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ SECTIONS KPROBES_TEXT *(.fixup) *(.gnu.warning) - _etext = .; /* End of text section */ + _etext = .; /* End of text section */ } :text = 0x9090 . = ALIGN(16); /* Exception table */ @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ SECTIONS __tracedata_end = .; } - . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Align data segment to page size boundary */ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Align data segment to page size boundary */ /* Data */ .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { DATA_DATA @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ SECTIONS .vsyscall_3 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 3072: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_3)) { *(.vsyscall_3) } - . = VSYSCALL_VIRT_ADDR + 4096; + . = VSYSCALL_VIRT_ADDR + PAGE_SIZE; #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR #undef VSYSCALL_PHYS_ADDR @@ -134,23 +134,23 @@ SECTIONS *(.data.init_task) }:data.init - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.page_aligned) } /* might get freed after init */ - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __smp_alt_begin = .; __smp_locks = .; .smp_locks : AT(ADDR(.smp_locks) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.smp_locks) } __smp_locks_end = .; - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __smp_alt_end = .; - . = ALIGN(4096); /* Init code and data */ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Init code and data */ __init_begin = .; .init.text : AT(ADDR(.init.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { _sinittext = .; @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ SECTIONS .altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.altinstructions) } - __alt_instructions_end = .; + __alt_instructions_end = .; .altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.altinstr_replacement) } @@ -207,25 +207,25 @@ SECTIONS /* vdso blob that is mapped into user space */ vdso_start = . ; .vdso : AT(ADDR(.vdso) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.vdso) } - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); vdso_end = .; #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __initramfs_start = .; .init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.ramfs) } __initramfs_end = .; #endif - PERCPU(4096) + PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE) - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __init_end = .; - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __nosave_begin = .; .data_nosave : AT(ADDR(.data_nosave) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.nosave) } - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __nosave_end = .; __bss_start = .; /* BSS */ Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S 2008-02-09 22:27:13.000000000 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S 2008-02-16 16:34:36.000000000 +0300 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ SECTIONS /* read-only */ .text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { - . = ALIGN(4096); /* not really needed, already page aligned */ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* not really needed, already page aligned */ *(.text.page_aligned) TEXT_TEXT SCHED_TEXT @@ -70,21 +70,21 @@ SECTIONS RODATA /* writeable */ - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { /* Data */ DATA_DATA CONSTRUCTORS } :data - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data_nosave : AT(ADDR(.data_nosave) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __nosave_begin = .; *(.data.nosave) - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __nosave_end = .; } - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.page_aligned) *(.data.idt) @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ SECTIONS } /* might get freed after init */ - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .smp_locks : AT(ADDR(.smp_locks) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __smp_locks = .; *(.smp_locks) @@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ SECTIONS * after boot. Always make sure that ALIGN() directive is present after * the section which contains __smp_alt_end. */ - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* will be freed after init */ - . = ALIGN(4096); /* Init code and data */ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Init code and data */ .init.text : AT(ADDR(.init.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __init_begin = .; _sinittext = .; @@ -174,23 +174,23 @@ SECTIONS EXIT_DATA } #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __initramfs_start = .; *(.init.ramfs) __initramfs_end = .; } #endif - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __per_cpu_start = .; *(.data.percpu) *(.data.percpu.shared_aligned) __per_cpu_end = .; } - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* freed after init ends here */ - + .bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __init_end = .; __bss_start = .; /* BSS */ @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ SECTIONS __bss_stop = .; _end = . ; /* This is where the kernel creates the early boot page tables */ - . = ALIGN(4096); + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); pg0 = . ; } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/