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>
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