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| author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-02-08 15:58:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 10:30:30 +0100 |
| commit | 2add8e235cbe0dcd672c33fc322754e15500238c (patch) | |
| tree | 3cf9abe886432ac82fc08e99241ec7254dc20193 /arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | |
| parent | percpu: make PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION overridable by arches (diff) | |
| download | linux-2add8e235cbe0dcd672c33fc322754e15500238c.tar.xz linux-2add8e235cbe0dcd672c33fc322754e15500238c.zip | |
x86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Impact: cleanup and bug fix
Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
that are offset by __per_cpu_load. This allows the removal of
the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
resume reported by Jiri Slaby.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 21 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S index a0a2b5ca9b7d..2e648e3a5ea4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -205,19 +205,6 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64) pushq $0 popfq -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - /* - * Fix up static pointers that need __per_cpu_load added. The assembler - * is unable to do this directly. This is only needed for the boot cpu. - * These values are set up with the correct base addresses by C code for - * secondary cpus. - */ - movq initial_gs(%rip), %rax - cmpl $0, per_cpu__cpu_number(%rax) - jne 1f - addq %rax, early_gdt_descr_base(%rip) -1: -#endif /* * We must switch to a new descriptor in kernel space for the GDT * because soon the kernel won't have access anymore to the userspace @@ -275,11 +262,7 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64) ENTRY(initial_code) .quad x86_64_start_kernel ENTRY(initial_gs) -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - .quad __per_cpu_load -#else - .quad PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union) -#endif + .quad INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union) __FINITDATA ENTRY(stack_start) @@ -425,7 +408,7 @@ NEXT_PAGE(level2_spare_pgt) early_gdt_descr: .word GDT_ENTRIES*8-1 early_gdt_descr_base: - .quad per_cpu__gdt_page + .quad INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(gdt_page) ENTRY(phys_base) /* This must match the first entry in level2_kernel_pgt */ |