From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment to minimize padding. For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is no change. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 4e2e1cc..d1ea7ce 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -530,9 +530,18 @@ *(.scommon) \ } +/* + * Allow archectures to redefine BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS to add extra + * sections to the front of bss. + */ +#ifndef BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS +#define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS +#endif + #define BSS(bss_align) \ . = ALIGN(bss_align); \ .bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ + BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS \ *(.bss..page_aligned) \ *(.dynbss) \ *(.bss) \ -- 1.7.2.3