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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-05-28 18:02:14 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 14:48:13 +0400 |
| commit | a7bf0bd5e6af7fe69342dabf2a3b721f0163469a (patch) | |
| tree | 3f7e08f0df4c5eccf81732dcf95b8cc4efafa203 /include/linux/linkage.h | |
| parent | 1ecd27657b735128a728ebf0c31fce5e1456718a (diff) | |
| download | linux-a7bf0bd5e6af7fe69342dabf2a3b721f0163469a.tar.xz | |
build: add __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss
Making a variable page-aligned by using
__attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if
sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves
variables in the remainder of the section unaligned.
This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and
__page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of
variables. This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the
linker will make sure they're aligned properly. Unfortunately it
requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/linkage.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/linkage.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h index 2119610b24f8..9fd1f859021b 100644 --- a/include/linux/linkage.h +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ #ifndef _LINUX_LINKAGE_H #define _LINUX_LINKAGE_H +#include <linux/compiler.h> #include <asm/linkage.h> #ifdef __cplusplus @@ -17,6 +18,9 @@ # define asmregparm #endif +#define __page_aligned_data __section(.data.page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) +#define __page_aligned_bss __section(.bss.page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) + /* * This is used by architectures to keep arguments on the stack * untouched by the compiler by keeping them live until the end. |