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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2008-01-28 20:21:15 +0100
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2008-01-28 23:21:19 +0100
commit312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8 (patch)
tree875ad50025dd230e7097a46cbab4e1a57a3696e1 /include/asm-generic
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Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst
Today we have the following annotations for functions/data referencing __init/__exit functions / data: __init_refok => for init functions __initdata_refok => for init data __exit_refok => for exit functions There is really no difference between the __init and __exit versions and simplify it and to introduce a shorter annotation the following new annotations are introduced: __ref => for functions (code) that references __*init / __*exit __refdata => for variables __refconst => for const variables Whit this annotation is it more obvious what the annotation is for and there is no longer the arbitary division between __init and __exit code. The mechanishm is the same as before - a special section is created which is made part of the usual sections in the linker script. We will start to see annotations like this: -static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] = { +static const struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] __refconst = { ----------------- -static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata cpuid_class_cpu_notifier = +static struct notifier_block cpuid_class_cpu_notifier __refdata = ---------------- -static int threshold_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, +static int __ref threshold_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, [The above is just random samples]. Note: No modifications were needed in modpost to support the new sections due to the newly introduced blacklisting. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 2948530..76df771 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#define DATA_DATA \
*(.data) \
*(.data.init.refok) \
+ *(.ref.data) \
DEV_KEEP(init.data) \
DEV_KEEP(exit.data) \
CPU_KEEP(init.data) \
@@ -169,6 +170,7 @@
\
/* __*init sections */ \
__init_rodata : AT(ADDR(__init_rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ *(.ref.rodata) \
DEV_KEEP(init.rodata) \
DEV_KEEP(exit.rodata) \
CPU_KEEP(init.rodata) \
@@ -202,6 +204,7 @@
#define TEXT_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
*(.text) \
+ *(.ref.text) \
*(.text.init.refok) \
*(.exit.text.refok) \
DEV_KEEP(init.text) \