From a7bf0bd5e6af7fe69342dabf2a3b721f0163469a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:02:14 +0100 Subject: build: add __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss Making a variable page-aligned by using __attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves variables in the remainder of the section unaligned. This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of variables. This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the linker will make sure they're aligned properly. Unfortunately it requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/mm') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c index 416ea415f5c..0561fde56a5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c @@ -394,8 +394,7 @@ static int __init early_ioremap_debug_setup(char *str) early_param("early_ioremap_debug", early_ioremap_debug_setup); static __initdata int after_paging_init; -static pte_t bm_pte[PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(pte_t)] - __section(.bss.page_aligned); +static pte_t bm_pte[PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(pte_t)] __page_aligned_bss; static inline pmd_t * __init early_ioremap_pmd(unsigned long addr) { -- cgit v1.2.3