Commit-ID: 0103ba94747a9de4d36c29b6cfbeefef609b925f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0103ba94747a9de4d36c29b6cfbeefef609b925f
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:59:36 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:27:05 -0700
x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivially faster, and makes using
larger transfers for the clear slightly easier.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 0d26c92..27c168d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SECTIONS
*(.data.*)
_edata = . ;
}
+ . = ALIGN(32);
.bss : {
_bss = . ;
*(.bss)
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