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| author | Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> | 2017-08-25 00:54:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> | 2017-09-10 19:34:53 -0400 |
| commit | ca8b5d97d6bfd2d24cec053bbbe35cf356bec4e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 36950a2d9a13a56761d182771ebcd795fb17c798 /arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | |
| parent | 0d302c710bf04149b6de7cd9a7064d0ca6cd4bea (diff) | |
| download | linux-ca8b5d97d6bfd2d24cec053bbbe35cf356bec4e3.tar.bz2 | |
ARM: XIP kernel: store .data compressed in ROM
The .data segment stored in ROM is only copied to RAM once at boot time
and never referenced afterwards. This is arguably a suboptimal usage of
ROM resources.
This patch allows for compressing the .data segment before storing it
into ROM and decompressing it to RAM rather than simply copying it,
saving on precious ROM space.
Because global data is not available yet (obviously) we must allocate
decompressor workspace memory on the stack. The .bss area is used as a
stack area for that purpose before it is cleared. The required stack
frame is 9568 bytes for __inflate_kernel_data() alone, so make sure
the .bss is large enough to cope with that plus extra room for called
functions or fail the build.
Those numbers were picked arbitrarily based on the above 9568 byte
stack frame:
10240 (2.5 * PAGE_SIZE): used to override -Wframe-larger-than whose
default value is 1024.
12288 (3 * PAGE_SIZE): minimum .bss size to contain the stack.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@renesas.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile index ad325a8c7e1e..52f437997cc6 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ head-y := head$(MMUEXT).o obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_LL) += debug.o obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK) += early_printk.o +# This is executed very early using a temporary stack when no memory allocator +# nor global data is available. Everything has to be allocated on the stack. +CFLAGS_head-inflate-data.o := $(call cc-option,-Wframe-larger-than=10240) +obj-$(CONFIG_XIP_DEFLATED_DATA) += head-inflate-data.o + obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT) += hyp-stub.o AFLAGS_hyp-stub.o :=-Wa,-march=armv7-a ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_PSCI),y) |