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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2006-03-25 16:30:28 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-25 09:10:55 -0800
commiteaeae0cc985fa1df753da7edc8d02635cbc1ba39 (patch)
tree793319d36cf4c16d0374ab915b3225cc073c3d26 /arch/x86_64/kernel
parent5f44a669805ab2c18b347436ec5333173b821268 (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit
This patch puts the code from head.S in a special .bootstrap.text section. I'm working on a patch to reorder the functions in the kernel (I'll post that later), but for x86-64 at least the kernel bootstrap requires that the head.S functions are on the very first page/pages of the kernel text. This is understandable since the bootstrap is complex enough already and not a problem at all, it just means they aren't allowed to be reordered. This patch puts these special functions into a separate section to document this, and to guarantee this in the light of possibly reordering the rest later. (So this patch doesn't fix a bug per se, but makes things more robust by making the order of these functions explicit) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S
index 0cddcc03842..6df05e6034f 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
*/
.text
+ .section .bootstrap.text
.code32
.globl startup_32
/* %bx: 1 if coming from smp trampoline on secondary cpu */
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 74db0062d4a..029be20acce 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ SECTIONS
phys_startup_64 = startup_64 - LOAD_OFFSET;
_text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
.text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ *(.bootstrap.text)
*(.text)
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT