From d2af12aeadaedf657c9fb9c3df984d2c5ab25f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Abbott Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:59:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections. This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of ".bss.page_aligned" and ".data.page_aligned" in the kernel with macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having to touch a lot of the kernel. The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names of the form ".data.foo". Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- include/linux/linkage.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h index fee9e59649c1..691f59171c6c 100644 --- a/include/linux/linkage.h +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h @@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ #define __page_aligned_data __section(.data.page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) #define __page_aligned_bss __section(.bss.page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) +/* + * For assembly routines. + * + * Note when using these that you must specify the appropriate + * alignment directives yourself + */ +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA .section ".data.page_aligned", "aw" +#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS .section ".bss.page_aligned", "aw" + /* * This is used by architectures to keep arguments on the stack * untouched by the compiler by keeping them live until the end.