Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Tim Abbott <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/5] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table. | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:48:17 -0400 |
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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 <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++---- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.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 5204332..dd04f86 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.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 51a8478..dad5a59 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ SECTIONS #endif PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) - *(.data.idt) CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES) -- 1.6.3.3
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