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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2011-05-20 17:51:17 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-05-22 11:48:03 +0200
commit107e0e0cd85beeee05af7ea374fda14d037ee500 (patch)
treebf39fe1f0e8cfc4ab0f8510859882537f96afcb7 /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
parent79deb8e511bd6fc8e40add4da75b19df085d9453 (diff)
x86, apic: Introduce .apicdrivers section to find the list of apic drivers
This will pave the way for each apic driver to be self-contained and eliminate the need for apic_probe[]. Order in which apic drivers are listed in the .apicdrivers section is important, as this determines the apic probe order. And this is enforced by the ordering of apic driver files in the Makefile and the macros apic_driver()/apic_drivers(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: steiner@sgi.com Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org Cc: yinghai@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521005526.068775085@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 624a2016198..49927a863cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -306,6 +306,13 @@ SECTIONS
}
. = ALIGN(8);
+ .apicdrivers : AT(ADDR(.apicdrivers) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __apicdrivers = .;
+ *(.apicdrivers);
+ __apicdrivers_end = .;
+ }
+
+ . = ALIGN(8);
/*
* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with
* references from .altinstructions and .eh_frame