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The common section data are repeated in many linker scripts (often
twice in each script to support SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA). When you
add a new read-only data section, you end up with touching lots of
places.

After this commit, you will only need to touch bl_common.ld.h when
you add a new section to RODATA_COMMON.

Replace a series of RO section with RODATA_COMMON, which contains
6 sections, some of which did not exist before.

This is not a big deal because unneeded data should not be compiled
in the first place. I believe this should be controlled by BL*_SOURCES
in Makefiles, not by linker scripts.

When I was working on this commit, the BL1 image size increased
due to the fconf_populator. Commit c452ba15

 ("fconf: exclude
fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c from BL1_SOURCES") fixed this issue.

I investigated BL1, BL2, BL2U, BL31 for plat=fvp, and BL2-AT-EL3,
BL31, BL31 for plat=uniphier. I did not see any more  unexpected
code addition.

Change-Id: I5d14d60dbe3c821765bce3ae538968ef266f1460
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

These are mostly used to collect data from special structure,
and repeated in many linker scripts.

To differentiate the alignment size between aarch32/aarch64, I added
a new macro STRUCT_ALIGN.

While I moved the PMF_SVC_DESCS, I dropped #if ENABLE_PMF conditional.
As you can see in include/lib/pmf/pmf_helpers.h, PMF_REGISTER_SERVICE*
are no-op when ENABLE_PMF=0. So, pmf_svc_descs and pmf_timestamp_array
data are not populated.

Change-Id: I3f4ab7fa18f76339f1789103407ba76bda7e56d0
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

TF-A has so many linker scripts, at least one linker script for each BL
image, and some platforms have their own ones. They duplicate quite
similar code (and comments).

When we add some changes to linker scripts, we end up with touching
so many files. This is not nice in the maintainability perspective.

When you look at Linux kernel, the common code is macrofied in
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, which is included from each arch
linker script, arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

TF-A can follow this approach. Let's factor out the common code into
include/common/bl_common.ld.h

As a start point, this commit factors out the xlat_table section.

Change-Id: Ifa369e9b48e8e12702535d721cc2a16d12397895
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>