Re: [PATCH 9/10] provide __parainstructions section

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 15:41:29 EST


On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:20:24PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> This patch adds the __parainstructions section to vmlinux.lds.S.
> It's needed for the patching system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 8 ++++++++
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
> index 5ae8aa8..5e0300f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
> @@ -175,6 +175,14 @@ SECTIONS
> }
> __con_initcall_end = .;
> SECURITY_INIT
> +
> + . = ALIGN(8);
> + .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
> + __parainstructions = .;
> + *(.parainstructions)
> + __parainstructions_end = .;
> + }
> +

Are we going to see this for other archs than just x86?
If so then please add this to include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

The altinstructions right below is antoehr candidate..

Sam
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