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    RISC-V: Align the .init.text section · b6566dc1
    Atish Patra authored
    In order to improve kernel text protection, we need separate .init.text/
    .init.data/.text in separate sections. However, RISC-V linker relaxation
    code is not aware of any alignment between sections. As a result, it may
    relax any RISCV_CALL relocations between sections to JAL without realizing
    that an inter section alignment may move the address farther. That may
    lead to a relocation truncated fit error. However, linker relaxation code
    is aware of the individual section alignments.
    
    The detailed discussion on this issue can be found here.
    https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain/issues/738
    
    Keep the .init.text section aligned so that linker relaxation will take
    that as a hint while relaxing inter section calls.
    Here are the code size changes for each section because of this change.
    
    section         change in size (in bytes)
      .head.text      +4
      .text           +40
      .init.text      +6530
      .exit.text      +84
    
    The only significant increase in size happened for .init.text because
    all intra relocations also use 2MB alignment.
    Suggested-by: default avatarJim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAtish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarGreentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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