From 58d2dabd7d4f400395e65e5ba5a9b1bb6969ba78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:50:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86: put kexec_reloc in its own section

Since it wants to be page aligned, this alignment would force pointless
alignment of .text in the intermediate built_in.o file(s), needlessly
growing the overall text and binary size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
---
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S | 2 +-
 xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S
index 7a16c8569f..85ab602af5 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/kexec_reloc.S
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/machine_kexec.h>
 
-        .text
+        .section .text.kexec, "ax", @progbits
         .align PAGE_SIZE
         .code64
 
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
index 961f48f780..e47771cec1 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ SECTIONS
        *(.text.cold)
        *(.text.unlikely)
        *(.fixup)
+       *(.text.kexec)
        *(.gnu.warning)
        _etext = .;             /* End of text section */
   } :text = 0x9090
-- 
2.30.2