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[ Upstream commit 45d619bdaf799196d702a9ae464b07066d6db2f9 ] Symbols _edata and _end in the linker script are the only unaligned expicitly on page boundary. Although _end is aligned implicitly by BSS_SECTION macro that is still inconsistent and could lead to a bug if a tool or function would assume that _edata is as aligned as others. For example, vmem_map_init() function does not align symbols _etext, _einittext etc. Should these symbols be unaligned as well, the size of ranges to update were short on one page. Instead of fixing every occurrence of this kind in the code and external tools just force the alignment on these two symbols. Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.