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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index 7590ac2570b9..f8b9ee97a891 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -108,19 +108,16 @@ extern unsigned long _brk_end; void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align); /* - * Reserve space in the brk section. The name must be unique within the file, - * and somewhat descriptive. The size is in bytes. + * Reserve space in the .brk section, which is a block of memory from which the + * caller is allowed to allocate very early (before even memblock is available) + * by calling extend_brk(). All allocated memory will be eventually converted + * to memblock. Any leftover unallocated memory will be freed. * - * The allocation is done using inline asm (rather than using a section - * attribute on a normal variable) in order to allow the use of @nobits, so - * that it doesn't take up any space in the vmlinux file. + * The size is in bytes. */ -#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) \ - asm(".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits\n\t" \ - ".brk." #name ":\n\t" \ - ".skip " __stringify(size) "\n\t" \ - ".size .brk." #name ", " __stringify(size) "\n\t" \ - ".popsection\n\t") +#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) \ + __section(".bss..brk") __aligned(1) __used \ + static char __brk_##name[size] extern void probe_roms(void); #ifdef __i386__ @@ -133,12 +130,19 @@ asmlinkage void __init x86_64_start_reservations(char *real_mode_data); #endif /* __i386__ */ #endif /* _SETUP */ -#else -#define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz) \ - .pushsection .brk_reservation,"aw",@nobits; \ -.brk.name: \ -1: .skip sz; \ - .size .brk.name,.-1b; \ + +#else /* __ASSEMBLY */ + +.macro __RESERVE_BRK name, size + .pushsection .bss..brk, "aw" +SYM_DATA_START(__brk_\name) + .skip \size +SYM_DATA_END(__brk_\name) .popsection +.endm + +#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) __RESERVE_BRK name, size + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ + #endif /* _ASM_X86_SETUP_H */ |