Re: common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59)

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
> > [To be honest, I think the stuff with `LOAD_OFFSET' is a bit of a waste;
> > it seems cleaner to just have archs define their own sections as
> > appropriate, and use RODATA_CONTENTS directly -- it's the input sections
> > and related symbols that are always changing (and so better centralized),
> > after all, not the output sections.]
> 
> There were some reports of failed boots that boiled down to
> mis-alignment of a single section.
> With your suggestion we will end up in the same problem.
> __start_ksymbtab will in some cases have a value less than the actual
> start of the first symbol.

Then it would seem an alignment directive should probably be included
before __start_ksymbtab (and possibly other places).  [but I can't see
what it has to do with having separate sections or not.]

-Miles
-- 
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
 where four map sheets join."   -- Anon. British Officer in WW I