From 7eb90f2ff7e3ee814ff12f3cd909b965cdd4a869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:43:08 +0200 Subject: arm64: cover the .head.text section in the .text segment mapping Keeping .head.text out of the .text mapping buys us very little: its actual payload is only 4 KB, most of which is padding, but the page alignment may add up to 2 MB (in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA=y) of additional padding to the uncompressed kernel Image. Also, on 4 KB granule kernels, the 4 KB misalignment of .text forces us to map the adjacent 56 KB of code without the PTE_CONT attribute, and since this region contains things like the vector table and the GIC interrupt handling entry point, this region is likely to benefit from the reduced TLB pressure that results from PTE_CONT mappings. So remove the alignment between the .head.text and .text sections, and use the [_text, _etext) rather than the [_stext, _etext) interval for mapping the .text segment. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel') diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 5a1939a74ff3..61a1075b9c30 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ SECTIONS _text = .; HEAD_TEXT } - ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(PAGE_SIZE) .text : { /* Real text segment */ _stext = .; /* Text and read-only data */ __exception_text_start = .; -- cgit v1.2.3