x86: use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code

Replace the hardcoded list of initialization functions for each CPU
vendor by a list in an ELF section, which is read at initialization in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.c to fill the cpu_devs[] array. The ELF
section, named .x86cpuvendor.init, is reclaimed after boot, and
contains entries of type "struct cpu_vendor_dev" which associates a
vendor number with a pointer to a "struct cpu_dev" structure.

This first modification allows to remove all the VENDOR_init_cpu()
functions.

This patch also removes the hardcoded calls to early_init_amd() and
early_init_intel(). Instead, we add a "c_early_init" member to the
cpu_dev structure, which is then called if not NULL by the generic CPU
initialization code. Unfortunately, in early_cpu_detect(), this_cpu is
not yet set, so we have to use the cpu_devs[] array directly.

This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is needed for
further patch that will allow to disable compilation of unused CPU
support code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
index 7139b0262703..9c4ee98f2cb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
@@ -439,11 +439,7 @@ static struct cpu_dev cyrix_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
         .c_identify     = cyrix_identify,
 };
 
-int __init cyrix_init_cpu(void)
-{
-        cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX] = &cyrix_cpu_dev;
-        return 0;
-}
+cpu_vendor_dev_register(X86_VENDOR_CYRIX, &cyrix_cpu_dev);
 
 static struct cpu_dev nsc_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
         .c_vendor       = "NSC",
@@ -451,9 +447,4 @@ static struct cpu_dev nsc_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
         .c_init         = init_nsc,
 };
 
-int __init nsc_init_cpu(void)
-{
-        cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_NSC] = &nsc_cpu_dev;
-        return 0;
-}
-
+cpu_vendor_dev_register(X86_VENDOR_NSC, &nsc_cpu_dev);