Skip to content
  • Mike Frysinger's avatar
    vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATA · d356c0b6
    Mike Frysinger authored
    
    
    With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the
    softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to
    "DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the
    .data.shared_align section.  I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that
    is what caused me to notice this larger problem.  No one else in the
    kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one
    has noticed yet.
    
    Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can
    see, the linker just places it last.  This "just works" for most people,
    but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section
    overlap errors:
    
    bfin-uclinux-ld.real:
    	section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e48b7] overlaps
    	section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e0723]
    
    I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do
    funky placement would see similar issues ...
    
    On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end:
     [8] .data             PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096
     [9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64
    
    So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is
    placed in the right location.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
    Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
    Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    d356c0b6