android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/x86_64
Arjan van de Ven eaeae0cc98 [PATCH] x86_64: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit
This patch puts the code from head.S in a special .bootstrap.text
section.

I'm working on a patch to reorder the functions in the kernel (I'll post
that later), but for x86-64 at least the kernel bootstrap requires that
the head.S functions are on the very first page/pages of the kernel
text.  This is understandable since the bootstrap is complex enough
already and not a problem at all, it just means they aren't allowed to
be reordered.  This patch puts these special functions into a separate
section to document this, and to guarantee this in the light of possibly
reordering the rest later.

(So this patch doesn't fix a bug per se, but makes things more robust by
making the order of these functions explicit)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
..
boot Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-01-10 08:21:33 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes: Fixed array boundary violation 2006-03-21 20:14:10 +11:00
ia32 [PATCH] x86_64: s/Overwrite/Override/ in arch/x86-64 2006-03-25 09:10:54 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] x86_64: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit 2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
lib [PATCH] x86_64: remove dead do_softirq_thunk 2006-03-25 09:10:53 -08:00
mm [PATCH] x86_64: Add __init to fixmap functions that are only called during boot 2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] x86_64: {set,clear,test}_bit() related cleanup and pci_mmcfg_init() fix 2006-03-24 07:33:15 -08:00
defconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig 2006-03-25 09:10:52 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Move kernel to 2MB 2006-03-25 09:10:54 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_INIT_DEBUG 2006-02-04 16:43:13 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] x86-64: Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels 2006-03-25 09:10:52 -08:00