commit 6e2228fb05 ("Merge patch series "Clean up arm linker scripts"")
was cleaning up linker scripts for armv7 and v8 in a similar fashion.
Several commits in the past -- e.g
commit d0b5d9da5d ("arm: make _end compiler-generated")
was moving symbols to be compiler generated. They were defined as c
variables in its own section to force the compiler emit relative a
reference. However, defining those in the linker script will do the
same thing since [0].
So let's remove the special sections from the linker scripts, the
variable definitions from sections.c, and define them as a symbols.
It's worth noting that the linker was discarding the symbols in the
older binary completely since the symbol definition had an extra _.
- new binary
$~ aarch64-linux-gnu-readelf -sW u-boot | grep efi_runtim
246: 000000000004acbe 13 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 14 vbe_req_efi_runtime_rand
3198: 0000000000318690 16 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 29 efi_runtime_mmio
6359: 00000000000dedff 217 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 14 efi_runtime_relocate
7942: 00000000003074c0 136 OBJECT GLOBAL HIDDEN 29 efi_runtime_services
8869: 0000000000305e20 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 27 __efi_runtime_rel_stop
9159: 0000000000305e20 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 27 __efi_runtime_stop
9410: 0000000000305e20 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 27 __efi_runtime_start
10137: 00000000005981bd 0 NOTYPE WEAK HIDDEN 33 efi_runtime.c.de5bed54
10470: 0000000000305e20 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 27 __efi_runtime_rel_start
- old binary
$~ aarch64-linux-gnu-readelf -sW u-boot.old | grep efi_runtim
246: 000000000004acbe 13 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 14 vbe_req_efi_runtime_rand
3198: 0000000000318690 16 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 29 efi_runtime_mmio
6359: 00000000000dedff 221 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 14 efi_runtime_relocate
7942: 00000000003074c0 136 OBJECT GLOBAL HIDDEN 29 efi_runtime_services
10135: 0000000000598320 0 NOTYPE WEAK HIDDEN 33 efi_runtime.c.de5bed54
$~ bloat-o-meter u-bool.old u-boot
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 7/-4 (3)
Function old new delta
efi_memory_init 343 350 +7
efi_runtime_relocate 221 217 -4
Total: Before=2009902, After=2009905, chg +0.00%
[0] binutils commit 6b3b0ab89663 ("Make linker assigned symbol dynamic only for shared object")
Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> # sandbox_defconfig on amd64, arm64, riscv64
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Fixes: commit aac53d3d96 ("sandbox: Rename EFI runtime sections")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
f0a5d2dfaa