From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: x86: provide __parainstructions section
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1143^2~238
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbf519240c840f51e4d4af35c3c19e1df160dc48;p=linux-2.6

x86: provide __parainstructions section

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>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 7457370d79..0992b9946c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -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) {