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| author | Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> | 2026-06-30 18:05:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2026-08-05 16:48:11 +0100 |
| commit | bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530 (patch) | |
| tree | 6717fcea088ba5c5f15002a48101fa2537135bf2 /usr/initramfs_data.S | |
| download | linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.tar.gz linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.zip | |
ARM: 9480/1: entry: expand comment in __switch_tografted
As per discussion between the developers in the mail thread
linked, expand the comment in __switch_to so that readers
of the code understand what is going on.
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/initramfs_data.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/initramfs_data.S | 36 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr/initramfs_data.S b/usr/initramfs_data.S new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cd67edc38 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/initramfs_data.S @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +/* + initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the + filesystem used for early user space. + Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23 + released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin. + If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the + following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary: + + + ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \ + -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o + ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.a initramfs_data.o + + For including the .init.ramfs sections, see include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds. + + The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures. + Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the + arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced. + + Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set + in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures. +*/ + +.section .init.ramfs,"a" +__irf_start: +.incbin "usr/initramfs_inc_data" +__irf_end: +.section .init.ramfs.info,"a" +.globl __initramfs_size +__initramfs_size: +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT + .quad __irf_end - __irf_start +#else + .long __irf_end - __irf_start +#endif |
