2002-08-04 16:34:07

by Brian Gerst

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Subject: [PATCH] i386 boot pagetables cleanup part 2

diff -urN linux-bg1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S
--- linux-bg1/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Sun Aug 4 11:01:52 2002
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Sun Aug 4 11:58:40 2002
@@ -339,6 +339,19 @@
iret

/*
+ * Real beginning of normal "text" segment
+ */
+ENTRY(stext)
+ENTRY(_stext)
+
+/*
+ * This starts the data section. Note that the above is all
+ * in the text section because it has alignment requirements
+ * that we cannot fulfill any other way.
+ */
+.data
+
+/*
* The IDT and GDT 'descriptors' are a strange 48-bit object
* only used by the lidt and lgdt instructions. They are not
* like usual segment descriptors - they consist of a 16-bit
@@ -362,53 +375,6 @@

.fill NR_CPUS-1,6,0 # space for the other GDT descriptors

-/*
- * This is initialized to create an identity-mapping at 0-8M (for bootup
- * purposes) and another mapping of the 0-8M area at virtual address
- * PAGE_OFFSET.
- */
-.org 0x1000
-ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
- .long 0x0007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
- .long 0x1007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
- /* default: 766 entries */
- .fill BOOT_USER_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
- .long 0x0007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
- .long 0x1007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
- /* default: 254 entries */
- .fill BOOT_KERNEL_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
-
-/*
- * The page tables are initialized to only 8MB here - the final page
- * tables are set up later depending on memory size.
- */
-.org 0x2000
-boot_pgtables:
-
-/*
- * empty_zero_page must immediately follow the page tables ! (The
- * initialization loop counts until empty_zero_page)
- */
-
-.org 0x4000
-boot_pgtables_end:
-ENTRY(empty_zero_page)
-
-.org 0x5000
-
-/*
- * Real beginning of normal "text" segment
- */
-ENTRY(stext)
-ENTRY(_stext)
-
-/*
- * This starts the data section. Note that the above is all
- * in the text section because it has alignment requirements
- * that we cannot fulfill any other way.
- */
-.data
-
ALIGN
/*
* The Global Descriptor Table contains 20 quadwords, per-CPU.
@@ -444,3 +410,26 @@
.fill (NR_CPUS-1)*GDT_ENTRIES,8,0 /* other CPU's GDT */
#endif

+.section .data.page_aligned, "aw"
+ENTRY(empty_zero_page)
+ .fill 4096,1,0
+
+/*
+ * This is initialized to create an identity-mapping at 0-8M (for bootup
+ * purposes) and another mapping of the 0-8M area at virtual address
+ * PAGE_OFFSET.
+ */
+ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
+ .long 0x0007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
+ .long 0x1007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
+ /* default: 766 entries */
+ .fill BOOT_USER_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
+ .long 0x0007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
+ .long 0x1007 + __PA(boot_pgtables)
+ /* default: 254 entries */
+ .fill BOOT_KERNEL_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
+
+.section .data.boot_pgtable, "aw"
+boot_pgtables:
+ .fill 2*4096,1,0
+boot_pgtables_end:
diff -urN linux-bg1/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
--- linux-bg1/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds Tue Jul 23 19:19:44 2002
+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds Sun Aug 4 11:59:19 2002
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
.data.percpu : { *(.data.percpu) }
__per_cpu_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
+ .data.boot_pgtable : { *(.data.boot_pgtable) }
__init_end = .;

. = ALIGN(4096);
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@
__nosave_end = .;

. = ALIGN(4096);
- .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
+ .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.page_aligned) *(.data.idt) }

. = ALIGN(32);
.data.cacheline_aligned : { *(.data.cacheline_aligned) }


Attachments:
boot_pte2-1 (3.23 kB)