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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-02-08 09:58:39 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 10:30:30 +0100 |
| commit | 2add8e235cbe0dcd672c33fc322754e15500238c (patch) | |
| tree | 3cf9abe886432ac82fc08e99241ec7254dc20193 /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | |
| parent | d3770449d3cb058b94ca1d050d5ced4a66c75ce4 (diff) | |
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x86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Impact: cleanup and bug fix
Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
that are offset by __per_cpu_load. This allows the removal of
the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
resume reported by Jiri Slaby.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S index 07f62d287ff0..087a7f2c639b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S @@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ SECTIONS DWARF_DEBUG } + /* + * Per-cpu symbols which need to be offset from __per_cpu_load + * for the boot processor. + */ +#define INIT_PER_CPU(x) init_per_cpu__##x = per_cpu__##x + __per_cpu_load +INIT_PER_CPU(gdt_page); +INIT_PER_CPU(irq_stack_union); + /* * Build-time check on the image size: */ |
