The EFI stub is typically built into the decompressor (x86, ARM) so none
of its symbols are annotated as __init. However, on arm64, the stub is
linked into the kernel proper, and the code is __init annotated at the
section level by prepending all names of SHF_ALLOC sections with '.init'.

This results in section names like .init.rodata.str1.8 (for string literals)
and .init.bss (which is tiny), both of which can be moved into the .init.data
output section.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e3928f578891..cbf4db440e9c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		CON_INITCALL
 		SECURITY_INITCALL
 		INIT_RAM_FS
+		*(.init.rodata.* .init.bss)	/* from the EFI stub */
 	}
 	.exit.data : {
 		ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)

-- 
2.5.0