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| author | Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-10 18:23:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 18:52:44 -0500 |
| commit | 5ceaa2f39bfa73c4398cd01e78f1c3ebde3d3383 (patch) | |
| tree | a33b0a472d42c1b744eaeb0efff2e9b6a234e4d4 /include/linux/decompress | |
| parent | 8c1840f15feecb6961f480cad1a7a8e53a3f2ba6 (diff) | |
decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC
The ARM kernel decompressor wants to be able to relocate r/w data
independently from the rest of the image, and we do this by ensuring that
r/w data has global visibility. Define STATIC_RW_DATA to be empty to
achieve this.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/decompress')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h index 5032b9a31ae7..ad5ec1d0475e 100644 --- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h | |||
| @@ -14,11 +14,21 @@ | |||
| 14 | 14 | ||
| 15 | /* Code active when included from pre-boot environment: */ | 15 | /* Code active when included from pre-boot environment: */ |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| 17 | /* | ||
| 18 | * Some architectures want to ensure there is no local data in their | ||
| 19 | * pre-boot environment, so that data can arbitarily relocated (via | ||
| 20 | * GOT references). This is achieved by defining STATIC_RW_DATA to | ||
| 21 | * be null. | ||
| 22 | */ | ||
| 23 | #ifndef STATIC_RW_DATA | ||
| 24 | #define STATIC_RW_DATA static | ||
| 25 | #endif | ||
| 26 | |||
| 17 | /* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from | 27 | /* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from |
| 18 | * malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994 | 28 | * malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994 |
| 19 | */ | 29 | */ |
| 20 | static unsigned long malloc_ptr; | 30 | STATIC_RW_DATA unsigned long malloc_ptr; |
| 21 | static int malloc_count; | 31 | STATIC_RW_DATA int malloc_count; |
| 22 | 32 | ||
| 23 | static void *malloc(int size) | 33 | static void *malloc(int size) |
| 24 | { | 34 | { |
