linux-stable/arch
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
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alpha [PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/ 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
arm26 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
cris [PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes 2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
frv [PATCH] s/;;/;/g 2006-03-24 07:33:24 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] x86_64: Implement early DMI scanning 2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-03-25 08:49:25 -08:00
m32r Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
mips [PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup 2006-03-25 08:22:48 -08:00
parisc [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
powerpc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
ppc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
s390 [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
sh Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
sparc [SPARC]: Try to start getting SMP back into shape. 2006-03-23 22:36:19 -08:00
sparc64 [PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options 2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
um Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit 2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00