diff mbox series

[1/3] scripts/sorttable: Change section type of orc_lookup to SHT_PROGBITS

Message ID 20200603143945.64248-2-changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series Build ORC fast lookup table in scripts/sorttable tool | expand

Commit Message

changhuaixin June 3, 2020, 2:39 p.m. UTC 
In order to edit orc_lookup table via sorttable, type of section
orc_lookup needs to be SHT_PROGBITS instead of SHT_NOBITS.

Linker script doesn't seem to allow manual specification of the section
type, so just write a byte into the section instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index db600ef218d7..49f4f5bc6165 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -826,6 +826,8 @@ 
 		. += (((SIZEOF(.text) + LOOKUP_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) /	\
 			LOOKUP_BLOCK_SIZE) + 1) * 4;			\
 		orc_lookup_end = .;					\
+		/* HACK: force SHT_PROGBITS so sorttable can edit: */	\
+		BYTE(1);						\
 	}
 #else
 #define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE