On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:19:52PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
...
>> using ".text.head" (not .head.text) which has corresponding "code" in
>> their vmlinux.lds. Could someone kindly point out how .head.text works
>> for parisc?
>
> Yeah, my fault (no idea why it worked for me???).
Kyle's explanation sounds right or I expect the sections wouldn't
have been included at all (or something like that) - and maybe it
really only matters for SMP - ie getting secondary CPUs running.
> I see two options:
> 1) revert my patch (gets to linker warnings and have to build up a new
> patch, ideally adding a section for .text.head to vmlinux.lds.S),
> 2) apply the attached patch.
>
> Opinions?
(2) works for me. I'm booting with 64-bit on a500...at least it's
now finding all the disks and attempting to mount NFS root.
>
> Helge
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 50b4a3a..2e516b8 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ SECTIONS
>
> _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
> .text ALIGN(16) : {
> + HEAD_TEXT
grundler <537>fgrep HEAD_TEXT include/*/*.h
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:#define HEAD_TEXT *(.head.text)
Yeah, I like that better than depending on *(.text) to include it.
thanks,
grant
> TEXT_TEXT
> SCHED_TEXT
> LOCK_TEXT
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