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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> | 2010-08-27 00:31:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> | 2010-10-22 21:57:17 +0200 |
| commit | 5e941c093989dfb6b67148d2410d79b1be8debfe (patch) | |
| tree | 0212db2e9b446f91ba04707b8bc5e12a73d2b795 /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.36-rc8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5e941c093989dfb6b67148d2410d79b1be8debfe.tar.xz linux-5e941c093989dfb6b67148d2410d79b1be8debfe.zip | |
x86: add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper
Useful when converting static arrays into boottime brk allocated objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index ef292c792d74..d6763b139a84 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align); : : "i" (sz)); \ } +/* Helper for reserving space for arrays of things */ +#define RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY(type, name, entries) \ + type *name; \ + RESERVE_BRK(name, sizeof(type) * entries) + #ifdef __i386__ void __init i386_start_kernel(void); |