Commit 6f44d033 authored by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86, doc: Adding comments about .iommu_table and its neighbors.

Updating the linker section with comments about .iommu_table and
some other ones that I know of.

CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Fujita Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282933173-19960-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent ee1f284f
......@@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ SECTIONS
__x86_cpu_dev_end = .;
}
/*
* start address and size of operations which during runtime
* can be patched with virtualization friendly instructions or
* baremetal native ones. Think page table operations.
* Details in paravirt_types.h
*/
. = ALIGN(8);
.parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__parainstructions = .;
......@@ -249,6 +255,11 @@ SECTIONS
__parainstructions_end = .;
}
/*
* struct alt_inst entries. From the header (alternative.h):
* "Alternative instructions for different CPU types or capabilities"
* Think locking instructions on spinlocks.
*/
. = ALIGN(8);
.altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__alt_instructions = .;
......@@ -256,10 +267,21 @@ SECTIONS
__alt_instructions_end = .;
}
/*
* And here are the replacement instructions. The linker sticks
* them as binary blobs. The .altinstructions has enough data to
* get the address and the length of them to patch the kernel safely.
*/
.altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.altinstr_replacement)
}
/*
* struct iommu_table_entry entries are injected in this section.
* It is an array of IOMMUs which during run time gets sorted depending
* on its dependency order. After rootfs_initcall is complete
* this section can be safely removed.
*/
.iommu_table : AT(ADDR(.iommu_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__iommu_table = .;
*(.iommu_table)
......
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