The .interp section specifies which "interpreter", ie. dynamic loader,
the kernel requests. But that doesn't make any sense, the kernel is
not a regular binary that is run with an interpreter.
The content seems to be some default value, this file doesn't even
exist on my system:
00000000 2f 75 73 72 2f 6c 69 62 2f 6c 64 2e 73 6f 2e 31 |/usr/lib/ld.so.1|
So the section serves no useful purpose and consumes a small amount of
space.
Also Alan Modra says we "likely could discard" it, so do so.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 31a0f201fb6f..619ffbaf72ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ SECTIONS
}
.hash : AT(ADDR(.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.hash) }
.gnu.hash : AT(ADDR(.gnu.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.gnu.hash) }
- .interp : AT(ADDR(.interp) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.interp) }
.rela.dyn : AT(ADDR(.rela.dyn) - LOAD_OFFSET)
{
__rela_dyn_start = .;
@@ -370,5 +369,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.gnu.version*)
*(.gnu.attributes)
*(.eh_frame)
+ *(.interp)
}
}
--
2.21.1
