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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 38 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index e1110e2ebc9e..c5ed79159975 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -91,19 +91,16 @@ extern unsigned long _brk_end; void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align); /* - * Reserve space in the brk section. The name must be unique within the file, - * and somewhat descriptive. The size is in bytes. + * Reserve space in the .brk section, which is a block of memory from which the + * caller is allowed to allocate very early (before even memblock is available) + * by calling extend_brk(). All allocated memory will be eventually converted + * to memblock. Any leftover unallocated memory will be freed. * - * The allocation is done using inline asm (rather than using a section - * attribute on a normal variable) in order to allow the use of @nobits, so - * that it doesn't take up any space in the vmlinux file. + * The size is in bytes. */ -#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) \ - asm(".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits\n\t" \ - ".brk." #name ":\n\t" \ - ".skip " __stringify(size) "\n\t" \ - ".size .brk." #name ", " __stringify(size) "\n\t" \ - ".popsection\n\t") +#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) \ + __section(.bss..brk) __aligned(1) __used \ + static char __brk_##name[size] /* Helper for reserving space for arrays of things */ #define RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY(type, name, entries) \ @@ -121,12 +118,19 @@ asmlinkage void __init x86_64_start_reservations(char *real_mode_data); #endif /* __i386__ */ #endif /* _SETUP */ -#else -#define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz) \ - .pushsection .brk_reservation,"aw",@nobits; \ -.brk.name: \ -1: .skip sz; \ - .size .brk.name,.-1b; \ + +#else /* __ASSEMBLY */ + +.macro __RESERVE_BRK name, size + .pushsection .bss..brk, "aw" +GLOBAL(__brk_\name) + .skip \size +END(__brk_\name) .popsection +.endm + +#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) __RESERVE_BRK name, size + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ + #endif /* _ASM_X86_SETUP_H */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 34c0652ca8b4..7e12b7d93b72 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -380,10 +380,10 @@ SECTIONS } . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); - .brk : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + .brk (NOLOAD) : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __brk_base = .; . += 64 * 1024; /* 64k alignment slop space */ - *(.brk_reservation) /* areas brk users have reserved */ + *(.bss..brk) /* areas brk users have reserved */ __brk_limit = .; } |