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| author | Russell King | 2017-11-01 19:18:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King | 2017-11-02 00:10:28 +0000 |
| commit | dad4675388fcb4353aea64174a165fb8494f1c13 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fe506942d17dc9e9cd980d8420057c1c01a1d04 /arch | |
| parent | ff0c6eecef59d6f949bbc09d117f2527ae1d4e34 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 9 |
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 _edata = .; + /* + * The image_end section appears after any additional loadable sections + * that the linker may decide to insert in the binary image. Having + * this symbol allows further debug in the near future. + */ + .image_end (NOLOAD) : { + _edata_real = .; + } + _magic_sig = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(0x016f2818); _magic_start = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_start); _magic_end = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_edata); |