This has the consequence of replacing the alignment of _PAGE_SIZE with an alignment of PAGE_SIZE. I believe these have the same value. .data.nosave should not need a separate output section; this change moves it into the .data section. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 10 +--------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 58738c8..2a6a995 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ SECTIONS */ . = ALIGN(_PAGE_SIZE); *(.data.init_task) - + NOSAVE_DATA DATA_DATA CONSTRUCTORS } @@ -96,14 +96,6 @@ SECTIONS *(.sdata) } - . = ALIGN(_PAGE_SIZE); - .data_nosave : { - __nosave_begin = .; - *(.data.nosave) - } - . = ALIGN(_PAGE_SIZE); - __nosave_end = .; - . = ALIGN(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT); .data.cacheline_aligned : { *(.data.cacheline_aligned) -- 1.6.2.1