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authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>2009-02-08 09:58:39 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-09 04:30:30 -0500
commit2add8e235cbe0dcd672c33fc322754e15500238c (patch)
tree3cf9abe886432ac82fc08e99241ec7254dc20193 /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
parentd3770449d3cb058b94ca1d050d5ced4a66c75ce4 (diff)
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>
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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
257 DWARF_DEBUG 257 DWARF_DEBUG
258} 258}
259 259
260 /*
261 * Per-cpu symbols which need to be offset from __per_cpu_load
262 * for the boot processor.
263 */
264#define INIT_PER_CPU(x) init_per_cpu__##x = per_cpu__##x + __per_cpu_load
265INIT_PER_CPU(gdt_page);
266INIT_PER_CPU(irq_stack_union);
267
260/* 268/*
261 * Build-time check on the image size: 269 * Build-time check on the image size:
262 */ 270 */