kernel: ensure that the arm exception handlers get preserved

SVN-Revision: 35937

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.8/220-gc_sections.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.8/220-gc_sections.patch
index 5fb54a2872010db4bf3eeaf33a8291fb9d864510..89dc863e455d63b3cfc4065164995def09d785b0 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.8/220-gc_sections.patch
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.8/220-gc_sections.patch
@@ -409,6 +409,15 @@
        VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__idmap_text_end) = .;
  
  #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ SECTIONS
+       .text : {                       /* Real text segment            */
+               _stext = .;             /* Text and read-only data      */
+                       __exception_text_start = .;
+-                      *(.exception.text)
++                      KEEP(*(.exception.text))
+                       __exception_text_end = .;
+                       IRQENTRY_TEXT
+                       TEXT_TEXT
 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ SECTIONS
        __ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
                __start___ex_table = .;