Re: [PATCH 09/12] platform/early: add an init section for early driver data

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 17:30:01 EST


Hi Bartosz,

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Provide a separate section in which pointers to early platform driver
> structs will be stored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -214,6 +214,16 @@
> #define CPU_METHOD_OF_TABLES() OF_TABLE(CONFIG_SMP, cpu_method)
> #define CPUIDLE_METHOD_OF_TABLES() OF_TABLE(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE, cpuidle_method)
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PLATFORM
> +#define EARLY_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_TABLE() \
> + . = ALIGN(8); \

Should this use STRUCT_ALIGN() instead?

> + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__early_platform_drivers_table) = .; \
> + KEEP(*(__early_platform_drivers_table)) \
> + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__early_platform_drivers_table_end) = .;
> +#else
> +#define EARLY_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_TABLE()
> +#endif

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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