[PATCH 6.1 v2 2/7] arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o

Tom Saeger tom.saeger at oracle.com
Sat Feb 11 07:17:17 AEDT 2023


From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>

commit 994b7ac1697b4581b7726d2ac64321e3c840229b upstream.

In the previous discussion (see the Link tag), Ard pointed out that
arm/arm64/kernel/head.o does not need any special treatment - the only
piece that must appear right at the start of the binary image is the
image header which is emitted into .head.text.

The linker script does the right thing to do. The build system does
not need to manipulate the link order of head.o.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMj1kXH77Ja8bSsq2Qj8Ck9iSZKw=1F8Uy-uAWGVDm4-CG=EuA@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas at fjasle.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012233500.156764-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger at oracle.com>
---
 scripts/head-object-list.txt | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/head-object-list.txt b/scripts/head-object-list.txt
index 105ea7ac4751..b074134cfac2 100644
--- a/scripts/head-object-list.txt
+++ b/scripts/head-object-list.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ arch/alpha/kernel/head.o
 arch/arc/kernel/head.o
 arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.o
 arch/arm/kernel/head.o
-arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
 arch/csky/kernel/head.o
 arch/hexagon/kernel/head.o
 arch/ia64/kernel/head.o

-- 
2.39.1



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