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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 46 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index ed8ec011a9fd..e832082b2761 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -94,27 +94,16 @@ 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. Must be - * used at file scope. + * 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. * - * (This uses a temp function to wrap the asm so we can pass it the - * size parameter; otherwise we wouldn't be able to. We can't use a - * "section" attribute on a normal variable because it always ends up - * being @progbits, which ends up allocating space in the vmlinux - * executable.) + * The size is in bytes. */ -#define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz) \ - static void __section(.discard.text) __used notrace \ - __brk_reservation_fn_##name##__(void) { \ - asm volatile ( \ - ".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits;" \ - ".brk." #name ":" \ - " 1:.skip %c0;" \ - " .size .brk." #name ", . - 1b;" \ - " .popsection" \ - : : "i" (sz)); \ - } +#define RESERVE_BRK(name, size) \ + __section(.bss..brk) __aligned(1) __used \ + static char __brk_##name[size] /* Helper for reserving space for arrays of things */ #define RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY(type, name, entries) \ @@ -132,12 +121,19 @@ 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 */ |