powerpc/prom_init: Move __prombss to it's own section and store it in .bss

This makes __prombss its own section, and for now store
it in .bss.

This will give us the ability later to store it elsewhere
and/or free it after boot (it's about 8KB).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index f45ed445c9f4551362ec5501188245215a533db1..88d621a7bf672b5cd2d162a055385e8ad4993f9a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 #include <linux/linux_logo.h>
 
 /* All of prom_init bss lives here */
-#define __prombss __initdata
+#define __prombss __section(.bss.prominit)
 
 /*
  * Eventually bump that one up

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 07ae018e550e1110e2743c6e63f8e065d59db42a..ac0ceb31b3360d24a088640239145fa5919d1645 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 #else
 #define PROVIDE32(x)   PROVIDE(x)
 #endif
+
+#define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS *(.bss.prominit)
+
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>