DTBs are compiled into byte arrays that are placed inside .dtb.init.rodata section. As they are never referenced directly from the code, they get removed during dead data elimination and we end up with __dtb_start == __dtb_end.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <[email protected]> Fixes: b67067f1176d ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination" --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index abe79e3..ad5d0bb 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ #define KERNEL_DTB() \ STRUCT_ALIGN(); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__dtb_start) = .; \ - *(.dtb.init.rodata) \ + KEEP(*(.dtb.init.rodata)) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__dtb_end) = .; /* -- 2.7.4
