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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2023-09-12 12:00:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-02-23 11:25:25 +0300 |
| commit | fa244085025f4a8fb38ec67af635aed04297758d (patch) | |
| tree | e1f716b589bff1c653cf88c3a8701bcb06896186 /drivers/firmware | |
| parent | 940c919be8136f56d898822461bab74d542c4dc8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fa244085025f4a8fb38ec67af635aed04297758d.tar.xz | |
x86/efi: Drop EFI stub .bss from .data section
commit 5f51c5d0e905608ba7be126737f7c84a793ae1aa upstream.
Now that the EFI stub always zero inits its BSS section upon entry,
there is no longer a need to place the BSS symbols carried by the stub
into the .data section.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-18-ardb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile index a1157c2a7170..ef4c12f0877b 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile @@ -108,13 +108,6 @@ lib-y := $(patsubst %.o,%.stub.o,$(lib-y)) # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46480 STUBCOPY_FLAGS-y += --remove-section=.note.gnu.property -# -# For x86, bootloaders like systemd-boot or grub-efi do not zero-initialize the -# .bss section, so the .bss section of the EFI stub needs to be included in the -# .data section of the compressed kernel to ensure initialization. Rename the -# .bss section here so it's easy to pick out in the linker script. -# -STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_X86) += --rename-section .bss=.bss.efistub,load,alloc STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := R_386_32 STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := R_X86_64_64 |