| From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | [PATCH 01/14] x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor | Date | Thu, 7 May 2009 15:26:49 -0700 |
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From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivially faster, and makes using larger transfers for the clear slightly easier.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S index 0d26c92..27c168d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.data.*) _edata = . ; } + . = ALIGN(32); .bss : { _bss = . ; *(.bss) -- 1.6.0.6
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