Stephen,
Paul said you were looking into this issue as well. Wanted to post what I
did on ppc32/e500 as a start for you to look at. I think the other ppc32
head*.S can follow the same pattern if we like this. However, wasn't sure
how to do _ENTRY() for ppc64.
- k
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
index 1f155d3..d83cbbb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
* r7 - End of kernel command line string
*
*/
- .text
-_GLOBAL(_stext)
-_GLOBAL(_start)
+ .section .text.head, "ax"
+_ENTRY(_stext);
+_ENTRY(_start);
/*
* Reserve a word at a fixed location to store the address
* of abatron_pteptrs
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 0c45855..823a8cb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ SECTIONS
/* Text and gots */
.text : {
+ ALIGN_FUNCTION();
+ *(.text.head)
_text = .;
TEXT_TEXT
SCHED_TEXT
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/ppc_asm.h b/include/asm-powerpc/ppc_asm.h
index fa083d8..7ec22d2 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/ppc_asm.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/ppc_asm.h
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ GLUE(.,name):
#else /* 32-bit */
+#define _ENTRY(n) \
+ .stabs __stringify(n:F-1),N_FUN,0,0,n;\
+ .globl n; \
+n:
+
#define _GLOBAL(n) \
.text; \
.stabs __stringify(n:F-1),N_FUN,0,0,n;\
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