[PATCH] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 25 11:41:01 AEST 2022


On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 07:40:37AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The .incbin assembler directive is much faster than bin2c + $(CC).

And perhaps more importantly it is simpler and less clumsy.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +
> +	.section .rodata, "a"
> +
> +	.align	8
> +kexec_purgatory:
> +	.globl	kexec_purgatory
> +	.incbin	"arch/powerpc/purgatory/purgatory.ro"
> +.Lkexec_purgatroy_end:

Typo here (s/ro/or/)

> +
> +	.align	8
> +kexec_purgatory_size:
> +	.globl	kexec_purgatory_size
> +	.quad	.Lkexec_purgatroy_end - kexec_purgatory

And here again ofc.

Looks good to me otherwise, nice cleanup :-)

Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>


Segher


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