* Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>: > * Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > When compiling the kernel with debug information i got the following error: > > > > hppa-linux-gnu-ld: section .text LMA [0000000000e78000,0000000000e7b41f] overlaps section .rodata.compressed LMA [00000000000e0078,00000000015ad43d] > > make[3]: *** [/home/svens/parisc-linux/src/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile:28: arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1 > > make[2]: *** [/home/svens/parisc-linux/src/arch/parisc/boot/Makefile:17: arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 > > make[2]: Target 'arch/parisc/boot/bzImage' not remade because of errors. > > > > While this might also be fixed by adjusting the linker script, i think we > > should strip the debug information when generating the compressed image. This > > reduces the size of vmlinuz/lifimage from ~69MB to 6.6MB when full debug > > information is enabled. > > I think keeping debug info is good. > Can you test this patch instead? > It converts a 141MB vmlinux boot file (with debug info) to a 32M vmlinuz for me. > > Ideally I would prefer something like > . = MIN_OR_HIGHER_THAN_CURRENT_ADDR((SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START)); > to avoid the ifdef, but I'm missing the linker script expert knowledge... Here is an updated patch without ifdefs: Helge diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S index bfd7872739a3..2ac3a643f2eb 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ SECTIONS *(.rodata.compressed) } - /* bootloader code and data starts behind area of extracted kernel */ - . = (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START); + /* bootloader code and data starts at least behind area of extracted kernel */ + . = MAX(ABSOLUTE(.), (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START)); /* align on next page boundary */ . = ALIGN(4096);
