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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: joel@jms.id.au, amodra@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Discard .interp section
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:59:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200227045933.22967-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200227045933.22967-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>

The .interp section specifies which "interpreter", ie. dynamic loader,
the kernel requests. But that doesn't make any sense, the kernel is
not a regular binary that is run with an interpreter.

The content seems to be some default value, this file doesn't even
exist on my system:
  00000000  2f 75 73 72 2f 6c 69 62  2f 6c 64 2e 73 6f 2e 31  |/usr/lib/ld.so.1|

So the section serves no useful purpose and consumes a small amount of
space.

Also Alan Modra says we "likely could discard" it, so do so.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 31a0f201fb6f..619ffbaf72ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	}
 	.hash : AT(ADDR(.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.hash) }
 	.gnu.hash : AT(ADDR(.gnu.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.gnu.hash) }
-	.interp : AT(ADDR(.interp) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.interp) }
 	.rela.dyn : AT(ADDR(.rela.dyn) - LOAD_OFFSET)
 	{
 		__rela_dyn_start = .;
@@ -370,5 +369,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.gnu.version*)
 		*(.gnu.attributes)
 		*(.eh_frame)
+		*(.interp)
 	}
 }
-- 
2.21.1


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-27  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27  4:59 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash Michael Ellerman
2020-02-27  4:59 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2020-02-27  6:27   ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Discard .interp section Alan Modra
2020-03-27  9:27     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-27  6:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash Alan Modra
2020-03-27  9:29   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-04-01 12:53 ` Michael Ellerman

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