linux/arch/arm64
Ard Biesheuvel 7eb90f2ff7 arm64: cover the .head.text section in the .text segment mapping
Keeping .head.text out of the .text mapping buys us very little: its actual
payload is only 4 KB, most of which is padding, but the page alignment may
add up to 2 MB (in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA=y) of additional
padding to the uncompressed kernel Image.

Also, on 4 KB granule kernels, the 4 KB misalignment of .text forces us to
map the adjacent 56 KB of code without the PTE_CONT attribute, and since
this region contains things like the vector table and the GIC interrupt
handling entry point, this region is likely to benefit from the reduced TLB
pressure that results from PTE_CONT mappings.

So remove the alignment between the .head.text and .text sections, and use
the [_text, _etext) rather than the [_stext, _etext) interval for mapping
the .text segment.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-04-14 18:11:43 +01:00
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boot ARM: DT changes, part 2 2016-03-24 19:01:38 -07:00
configs arm64: defconfig: updates for 4.6 2016-03-29 16:56:00 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-03-17 11:22:54 -07:00
include arm64: mm: restrict virt_to_page() to the linear mapping 2016-04-14 16:31:49 +01:00
kernel arm64: cover the .head.text section in the .text segment mapping 2016-04-14 18:11:43 +01:00
kvm arm64: kvm: 4.6-rc1: Fix VTCR_EL2 VS setting 2016-03-30 22:09:15 +02:00
lib arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00
mm arm64: cover the .head.text section in the .text segment mapping 2016-04-14 18:11:43 +01:00
net arm64: bpf: add extra pass to handle faulty codegen 2016-01-17 19:15:26 -05:00
xen xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64 2015-12-21 14:40:56 +00:00
Kconfig arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default 2016-03-03 18:14:17 +00:00
Kconfig.platforms Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 10:29:44 -07:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00