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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2017-11-01 15:18:13 -0400
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2017-11-01 20:10:28 -0400
commitdad4675388fcb4353aea64174a165fb8494f1c13 (patch)
tree0fe506942d17dc9e9cd980d8420057c1c01a1d04
parentff0c6eecef59d6f949bbc09d117f2527ae1d4e34 (diff)
ARM: add debug ".edata_real" symbol
Add an additional symbol to the decompressor image, which will allow future debugging of non-bootable problems similar to the one encountered with the EFI stub. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 7a4c59154361..7d06aa19c3e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ SECTIONS
85 85
86 _edata = .; 86 _edata = .;
87 87
88 /*
89 * The image_end section appears after any additional loadable sections
90 * that the linker may decide to insert in the binary image. Having
91 * this symbol allows further debug in the near future.
92 */
93 .image_end (NOLOAD) : {
94 _edata_real = .;
95 }
96
88 _magic_sig = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(0x016f2818); 97 _magic_sig = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(0x016f2818);
89 _magic_start = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_start); 98 _magic_start = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_start);
90 _magic_end = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_edata); 99 _magic_end = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_edata);