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Add new HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro.
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This patch is preparation for replacing all uses of ".head.text" or
".text.head" in the kernel with macros, so that the section name can
later be changed without having to touch a lot of the kernel.

Since some linker scripts do more complex things than referencing
HEAD_TEXT, we add a HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro that just contains the
actual name.

I've defined HEAD_TEXT_SECTION in a new header,
include/linux/section-names.h, so that this section name only needs to
appear in one place.  I anticipate creating similar macro structures
for a number of other section names.

The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic
section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections.  This requires renaming all magic sections with names
of the form ".text.foo".

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tim Abbott authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 26, 2009
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
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#include <linux/section-names.h>

#ifndef LOAD_OFFSET
#define LOAD_OFFSET 0
#endif
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#endif

/* Section used for early init (in .S files) */
#define HEAD_TEXT *(.head.text)
#define HEAD_TEXT *(HEAD_TEXT_SECTION)

/* init and exit section handling */
#define INIT_DATA \
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/init.h
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#define _LINUX_INIT_H

#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/section-names.h>
#include <linux/stringify.h>

/* These macros are used to mark some functions or
* initialized data (doesn't apply to uninitialized data)
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#define __memexitconst __section(.memexit.rodata)

/* For assembly routines */
#define __HEAD .section ".head.text","ax"
#define __HEAD .section __stringify(HEAD_TEXT_SECTION),"ax"
#define __INIT .section ".init.text","ax"
#define __FINIT .previous

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/section-names.h
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#ifndef __LINUX_SECTION_NAMES_H
#define __LINUX_SECTION_NAMES_H

#define HEAD_TEXT_SECTION .head.text

#endif /* !__LINUX_SECTION_NAMES_H */

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