From fbf519240c840f51e4d4af35c3c19e1df160dc48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:33:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 7457370d7916..0992b9946c6f 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) {