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Unverified Commit b6566dc1 authored by Atish Patra's avatar Atish Patra Committed by Palmer Dabbelt
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RISC-V: Align the .init.text section

In order to improve kernel text protection, we need separate .init.text/
.init.data/.text in separate sections. However, RISC-V linker relaxation
code is not aware of any alignment between sections. As a result, it may
relax any RISCV_CALL relocations between sections to JAL without realizing
that an inter section alignment may move the address farther. That may
lead to a relocation truncated fit error. However, linker relaxation code
is aware of the individual section alignments.

The detailed discussion on this issue can be found here.
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain/issues/738



Keep the .init.text section aligned so that linker relaxation will take
that as a hint while relaxing inter section calls.
Here are the code size changes for each section because of this change.

section         change in size (in bytes)
  .head.text      +4
  .text           +40
  .init.text      +6530
  .exit.text      +84

The only significant increase in size happened for .init.text because
all intra relocations also use 2MB alignment.

Suggested-by: default avatarJim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAtish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Tested-by: default avatarGreentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
parent 62149f35
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