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authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-01-30 13:33:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:33:19 +0100
commitfbf519240c840f51e4d4af35c3c19e1df160dc48 (patch)
tree856243ada4e56e6fb19074bbd026998b6cf0749b
parenta59153dceb860f810b2ecd2504162309291edd4c (diff)
x86: provide __parainstructions section
This patch adds the __parainstructions section to vmlinux.lds.S. It's needed for the patching system. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 7457370d791..0992b9946c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ SECTIONS
}
__con_initcall_end = .;
SECURITY_INIT
+
+ . = ALIGN(8);
+ .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __parainstructions = .;
+ *(.parainstructions)
+ __parainstructions_end = .;
+ }
+
. = ALIGN(8);
__alt_instructions = .;
.altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {