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| author | Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-17 16:28:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -0700 |
| commit | b99b87f70c7785ab1e253c6220f4b0b57ce3a7f7 (patch) | |
| tree | ec5688052334448ec8edd3a1a9cb95cd68501ac7 /include/asm-generic | |
| parent | e24aca672ff06aff0e6a1045efab86043ea5f735 (diff) | |
kernel: constructor support
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data
initialization.
Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/sections.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h index 4ce48e87853..d083561337f 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[]; extern char __initdata_begin[], __initdata_end[]; extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[]; +/* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */ +extern char __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[]; + /* function descriptor handling (if any). Override * in asm/sections.h */ #ifndef dereference_function_descriptor diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 6bdba10fef4..55413e568f0 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -440,12 +440,21 @@ INIT_TASK \ } +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS +#define KERNEL_CTORS() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_start) = .; \ + *(.ctors) \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_end) = .; +#else +#define KERNEL_CTORS() +#endif + /* init and exit section handling */ #define INIT_DATA \ *(.init.data) \ DEV_DISCARD(init.data) \ CPU_DISCARD(init.data) \ MEM_DISCARD(init.data) \ + KERNEL_CTORS() \ *(.init.rodata) \ DEV_DISCARD(init.rodata) \ CPU_DISCARD(init.rodata) \ |