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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-01-30 16:32:22 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-30 23:27:46 +0100
commit3ac6cffea4aa18007a454a7442da2855882f403d (patch)
tree4e784abaa1715728cb8fd2adbce793e30304d3b7 /Documentation/arm
parentc43e0e46adf79c321ed3fbf0351e1005fb8a2413 (diff)
linker script: use separate simpler definition for PERCPU()
Impact: fix linker screwup on x86_32 Recent x86_64 zerobased patches introduced PERCPU_VADDR() to put .data.percpu to a predefined address and re-defined PERCPU() in terms of it. The new macro defined one extra symbol, __per_cpu_load, for LMA of the section so that the init data could be accessed. This new symbol introduced the following problems to x86_32. 1. If __per_cpu_load is defined outside of .data.percpu as an absolute symbol, relocation generation for relocatable kernel fails due to absolute relocation. 2. If __per_cpu_load is put inside .data.percpu with absolute address assignment to work around #1, linker gets confused and under certain configurations ends up relocating the symbol against .data.percpu such that the load address gets added on top of already set load address. As x86_32 doesn't use predefined address for .data.percpu, there's no need for it to care about the possibility of __per_cpu_load being different from __per_cpu_start. This patch defines PERCPU() separately so that __per_cpu_load is defined inside .data.percpu so that everything is ordinary linking-wise. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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