From dad4675388fcb4353aea64174a165fb8494f1c13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:18:13 +0000 Subject: 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 --- arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3