Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
  x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner
  x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol()
  x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
index 625c3f0e741a..8ca82839288a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ static inline void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr,
 #define __pa_nodebug(x) __phys_addr_nodebug((unsigned long)(x))
 /* __pa_symbol should be used for C visible symbols.
    This seems to be the official gcc blessed way to do such arithmetic. */
+/*
+ * We need __phys_reloc_hide() here because gcc may assume that there is no
+ * overflow during __pa() calculation and can optimize it unexpectedly.
+ * Newer versions of gcc provide -fno-strict-overflow switch to handle this
+ * case properly. Once all supported versions of gcc understand it, we can
+ * remove this Voodoo magic stuff. (i.e. once gcc3.x is deprecated)
+ */
 #define __pa_symbol(x)  __pa(__phys_reloc_hide((unsigned long)(x)))
 
 #define __va(x)                 ((void *)((unsigned long)(x)+PAGE_OFFSET))