arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init

Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:

* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
  memory executable.

* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
  bytes larger than necessary.

This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mark Rutland
2015-12-09 12:44:38 +00:00
committed by Will Deacon
parent 5b28cd9d08
commit 9aa4ec1571
4 changed files with 2 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ struct alt_instr {
void __init apply_alternatives_all(void);
void apply_alternatives(void *start, size_t length);
void free_alternatives_memory(void);
#define ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature) \
" .word 661b - .\n" /* label */ \