Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:
* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
memory executable.
* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
bytes larger than necessary.
This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Bug:
30369029
Patchset: rework-pagetable
(cherry picked from commit
9aa4ec1571da62366cfddc20f3b923609604fe63)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Change-Id: I3fee118ead5c73ade50ea10d436881c9424a549c
void __init apply_alternatives_all(void);
void apply_alternatives(void *start, size_t length);
-void free_alternatives_memory(void);
#define ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature) \
" .word 661b - .\n" /* label */ \
__apply_alternatives(®ion);
}
-
-void free_alternatives_memory(void)
-{
- free_reserved_area(__alt_instructions, __alt_instructions_end,
- 0, "alternatives");
-}
PERCPU_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
- . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
- __init_end = .;
-
. = ALIGN(4);
.altinstructions : {
__alt_instructions = .;
}
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ __init_end = .;
+
_data = .;
_sdata = .;
RW_DATA_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
{
fixup_init();
free_initmem_default(0);
- free_alternatives_memory();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD