ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs

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.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index 79a41fa978f5..7e1ae91e5b1a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ ENDPROC(vector_\name)
 1:
         .endm
 
-        .globl  __stubs_start
+        .section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
 __stubs_start:
         @ This must be the first word
         .word   vector_swi
@@ -1120,24 +1120,16 @@ 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
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index fa25e4e425f6..7bcee5c9b604 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -148,6 +148,23 @@ 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 : {