Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933352AbZD1RJq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:09:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933179AbZD1RHG (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:07:06 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:56125 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933173AbZD1RHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:07:04 -0400 From: Tim Abbott To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Jeff Arnold , Paul Mundt , David Howells , Tim Abbott , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH v2 14/15] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:01:01 -0400 Message-Id: <1240938062-3264-15-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.1 In-Reply-To: <1240938062-3264-14-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> References: <1240938062-3264-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-2-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-3-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-4-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-5-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-6-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-7-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-8-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-9-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-10-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-11-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-12-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-13-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240938062-3264-14-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 db882aa..fdb0642 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S @@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ 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/