x86: provide __parainstructions section
authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:19 +0000 (13:33 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:19 +0000 (13:33 +0100)
This patch adds the __parainstructions section to vmlinux.lds.S.
It's needed for the patching system.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S

index 7457370..0992b99 100644 (file)
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@ SECTIONS
   }
   __con_initcall_end = .;
   SECURITY_INIT
+
+  . = ALIGN(8);
+  .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+  __parainstructions = .;
+       *(.parainstructions)
+  __parainstructions_end = .;
+  }
+
   . = ALIGN(8);
   __alt_instructions = .;
   .altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {