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 <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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 <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

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
@@ -306,6 +306,13 @@ SECTIONS
         }
 
         . = 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
          *  references from .altinstructions and .eh_frame