Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760654AbZD0UeW (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:34:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757882AbZD0Udd (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:33 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:55080 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760344AbZD0Udc (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:32 -0400 From: Tim Abbott To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Jeff Arnold , Paul Mundt , Tim Abbott , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 13/14] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table. Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:07 -0400 Message-Id: <1240864388-26315-14-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.1 In-Reply-To: <1240864388-26315-13-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> References: <1240864388-26315-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-2-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-3-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-4-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-5-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-6-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-7-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-8-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-9-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-10-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-11-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-12-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240864388-26315-13-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1660 Lines: 51 The .data.idt section is just squashed into the .data.page_aligned output section by the linker script anyway, so it might as well be in the .data.page_aligned section. This eliminates all references to .data.idt on x86. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Cc: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++---- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c index a1d2883..d7affb7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c @@ -73,11 +73,9 @@ char ignore_fpu_irq; /* * The IDT has to be page-aligned to simplify the Pentium - * F0 0F bug workaround.. We have a special link segment - * for this. + * F0 0F bug workaround. */ -gate_desc idt_table[256] - __attribute__((__section__(".data.idt"))) = { { { { 0, 0 } } }, }; +gate_desc idt_table[256] __page_aligned_data = { { { { 0, 0 } } }, }; #endif DECLARE_BITMAP(used_vectors, NR_VECTORS); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S index 594aabc..a57d39c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.page_aligned) - *(.data.idt) } . = ALIGN(32); -- 1.6.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/