From 107e0e0cd85beeee05af7ea374fda14d037ee500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:51:17 -0700 Subject: x86, apic: Introduce .apicdrivers section to find the list of apic drivers This will pave the way for each apic driver to be self-contained and eliminate the need for apic_probe[]. Order in which apic drivers are listed in the .apicdrivers section is important, as this determines the apic probe order. And this is enforced by the ordering of apic driver files in the Makefile and the macros apic_driver()/apic_drivers(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: steiner@sgi.com Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org Cc: yinghai@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521005526.068775085@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 624a2016198e..49927a863cc1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ SECTIONS __iommu_table_end = .; } + . = ALIGN(8); + .apicdrivers : AT(ADDR(.apicdrivers) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + __apicdrivers = .; + *(.apicdrivers); + __apicdrivers_end = .; + } + . = ALIGN(8); /* * .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with -- cgit v1.2.1