This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-use-linker-magic-for-vectors-and-vector-stubs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b9b32bf70f2fb710b07c94e13afbc729afe221da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:03:31 +0100
Subject: ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b9b32bf70f2fb710b07c94e13afbc729afe221da upstream.
Use linker magic to create the vectors and vector stubs: we can tell the
linker to place them at an appropriate VMA, but keep the LMA within the
kernel. This gets rid of some unnecessary symbol manipulation, and
have the linker calculate the relocations appropriately.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 28 ++++++++++------------------
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ ENDPROC(vector_\name)
1:
.endm
- .globl __stubs_start
+ .section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
__stubs_start:
@ This must be the first word
.word vector_swi
@@ -1165,24 +1165,16 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
vector_fiq:
subs pc, lr, #4
- .globl __stubs_end
-__stubs_end:
-
- .equ stubs_offset, __vectors_start + 0x1000 - __stubs_start
-
- .globl __vectors_start
+ .section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
__vectors_start:
- W(b) vector_rst + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_und + stubs_offset
- W(ldr) pc, .LCvswi + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_pabt + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_dabt + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_addrexcptn + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_irq + stubs_offset
- W(b) vector_fiq + stubs_offset
-
- .globl __vectors_end
-__vectors_end:
+ W(b) vector_rst
+ W(b) vector_und
+ W(ldr) pc, __vectors_start + 0x1000
+ W(b) vector_pabt
+ W(b) vector_dabt
+ W(b) vector_addrexcptn
+ W(b) vector_irq
+ W(b) vector_fiq
.data
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -137,6 +137,23 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_begin = .;
#endif
+ /*
+ * The vectors and stubs are relocatable code, and the
+ * only thing that matters is their relative offsets
+ */
+ __vectors_start = .;
+ .vectors 0 : AT(__vectors_start) {
+ *(.vectors)
+ }
+ . = __vectors_start + SIZEOF(.vectors);
+ __vectors_end = .;
+
+ __stubs_start = .;
+ .stubs 0x1000 : AT(__stubs_start) {
+ *(.stubs)
+ }
+ . = __stubs_start + SIZEOF(.stubs);
+ __stubs_end = .;
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
.exit.text : {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/arm-move-vector-stubs.patch
queue-3.4/arm-use-linker-magic-for-vectors-and-vector-stubs.patch
queue-3.4/arm-make-vectors-page-inaccessible-from-userspace.patch
queue-3.4/arm-allow-kuser-helpers-to-be-removed-from-the-vector-page.patch
queue-3.4/arm-poison-the-vectors-page.patch
queue-3.4/arm-update-fiq-support-for-relocation-of-vectors.patch
queue-3.4/arm-poison-memory-between-kuser-helpers.patch
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