linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.8 023/140] parisc: Fix kernel memory layout regarding position of _

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Message-Id: <20161026122221.376233928@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:21:23 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.8 023/140] parisc: Fix kernel memory layout regarding position of __gp

4.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>

commit f8850abb7ba68229838014b3409460e576751c6d upstream.

Architecturally we need to keep __gp below 0x1000000.

But because of ftrace and tracepoint support, the RO_DATA_SECTION now gets much
bigger than it was before. By moving the linkage tables before RO_DATA_SECTION
we can avoid that __gp gets positioned at a too high address.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* Start of data section */
 	_sdata = .;
 
-	RO_DATA_SECTION(8)
-
+	/* Architecturally we need to keep __gp below 0x1000000 and thus
+	 * in front of RO_DATA_SECTION() which stores lots of tracepoint
+	 * and ftrace symbols. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 	. = ALIGN(16);
 	/* Linkage tables */
@@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	}
 #endif
 
+	RO_DATA_SECTION(8)
+
 	/* unwind info */
 	.PARISC.unwind : {
 		__start___unwind = .;