linux/include
Tim Abbott 04e448d9a3 vmlinux.lds.h: restructure BSS linker script macros
The BSS section macros in vmlinux.lds.h currently place the .sbss
input section outside the bounds of [__bss_start, __bss_end].  On all
architectures except for microblaze that handle both .sbss and
__bss_start/__bss_end, this is wrong: the .sbss input section is
within the range [__bss_start, __bss_end].  Relatedly, the example
code at the top of the file actually has __bss_start/__bss_end defined
twice; I believe the right fix here is to define them in the
BSS_SECTION macro but not in the BSS macro.

Another problem with the current macros is that several
architectures have an ALIGN(4) or some other small number just before
__bss_stop in their linker scripts.  The BSS_SECTION macro currently
hardcodes this to 4; while it should really be an argument.  It also
ignores its sbss_align argument; fix that.

mn10300 is the only user at present of any of the macros touched by
this patch.  It looks like mn10300 actually was incorrectly converted
to use the new BSS() macro (the alignment of 4 prior to conversion was
a __bss_stop alignment, but the argument to the BSS macro is a start
alignment).  So fix this as well.

I'd like acks from Sam and David on this one.  Also CCing Paul, since
he has a patch from me which will need to be updated to use
BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 4) once this gets merged.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-07-18 00:02:45 +02:00
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acpi Merge branch 'bjorn-notify' into release 2009-06-24 01:22:20 -04:00
asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h: restructure BSS linker script macros 2009-07-18 00:02:45 +02:00
crypto
drm drm: Fix shifts which were miscalculated when converting from bitfields. 2009-06-24 16:11:04 +10:00
keys
linux Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-07-16 10:07:37 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (12135): Add a driver for mt9v011 sensor 2009-07-05 14:30:02 -03:00
mtd Kill jffs2-user.h 2009-06-05 17:31:38 +01:00
net memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock 2009-07-09 17:06:58 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi sd, sr: fix Driver 'sd' needs updating message 2009-06-21 12:01:27 -05:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/pcm-jiffies-check' into for-linus 2009-06-10 07:26:41 +02:00
trace Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-07-14 18:34:32 -07:00
video fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions 2009-06-16 19:48:00 -07:00
xen
Kbuild [SCSI] FC Pass Thru support 2009-06-12 14:20:05 -05:00