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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2006-12-07 02:14:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:03 +0100 |
| commit | 6ed018845f1172cdc94f8a20ad807df901c6b7eb (patch) | |
| tree | 7ad68aa11e2c6fd8fd1228167fb5d8273c4e6784 | |
| parent | 6569580de7ae367def89b7671029cb97c1965574 (diff) | |
[PATCH] i386: Add comment for align to vmlinux.lds
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index cbd24860fbb..c217e18f108 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -121,6 +121,12 @@ SECTIONS *(.smp_altinstr_replacement) __smp_alt_end = .; } + /* will be freed after init + * Following ALIGN() is required to make sure no other data falls on the + * same page where __smp_alt_end is pointing as that page might be freed + * after boot. Always make sure that ALIGN() directive is present after + * the section which contains __smp_alt_end. + */ . = ALIGN(4096); /* will be freed after init */ |