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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index cbd24860fbb..c217e18f108 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -121,6 +121,12 @@ SECTIONS *(.smp_altinstr_replacement) __smp_alt_end = .; } + /* will be freed after init + * Following ALIGN() is required to make sure no other data falls on the + * same page where __smp_alt_end is pointing as that page might be freed + * after boot. Always make sure that ALIGN() directive is present after + * the section which contains __smp_alt_end. + */ . = ALIGN(4096); /* will be freed after init */ |