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authorPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-06-17 16:28:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-18 13:03:57 -0700
commitb99b87f70c7785ab1e253c6220f4b0b57ce3a7f7 (patch)
treeec5688052334448ec8edd3a1a9cb95cd68501ac7 /include
parente24aca672ff06aff0e6a1045efab86043ea5f735 (diff)
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kernel: constructor support
Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/sections.h3
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h9
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h6
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index 4ce48e878530..d083561337f2 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
extern char __initdata_begin[], __initdata_end[];
extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];
+/* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */
+extern char __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[];
+
/* function descriptor handling (if any). Override
* in asm/sections.h */
#ifndef dereference_function_descriptor
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 6bdba10fef4a..55413e568f07 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -440,12 +440,21 @@
INIT_TASK \
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
+#define KERNEL_CTORS() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_start) = .; \
+ *(.ctors) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_end) = .;
+#else
+#define KERNEL_CTORS()
+#endif
+
/* init and exit section handling */
#define INIT_DATA \
*(.init.data) \
DEV_DISCARD(init.data) \
CPU_DISCARD(init.data) \
MEM_DISCARD(init.data) \
+ KERNEL_CTORS() \
*(.init.rodata) \
DEV_DISCARD(init.rodata) \
CPU_DISCARD(init.rodata) \
diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index 8c2c9989626d..13b633ed695e 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ typedef void (*exitcall_t)(void);
extern initcall_t __con_initcall_start[], __con_initcall_end[];
extern initcall_t __security_initcall_start[], __security_initcall_end[];
+/* Used for contructor calls. */
+typedef void (*ctor_fn_t)(void);
+
/* Defined in init/main.c */
extern int do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn);
extern char __initdata boot_command_line[];
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 505f20dcc1c7..098bdb7bfacf 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -363,6 +363,12 @@ struct module
local_t ref;
#endif
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
+ /* Constructor functions. */
+ ctor_fn_t *ctors;
+ unsigned int num_ctors;
+#endif
};
#ifndef MODULE_ARCH_INIT
#define MODULE_ARCH_INIT {}