From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
steiner@sgi.com, yinghai@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] x86, apic: use .apicdrivers section to find the list of apic drivers
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:35:01 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD67C15.7040601@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519234637.671736436@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
On 05/20/2011 03:45 AM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> This will enable each apic driver to be self-contained and eliminate the need
> for apic_probe[].
>
> Apic probe will now depend on the order in which apic drivers are listed in
> the .apicdrivers section. Ordering of apic driver files in the Makefile
> and the macros apic_driver()/apic_drivers() help enforce the desired order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> ---
...
> Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -305,6 +305,12 @@ SECTIONS
> __iommu_table_end = .;
> }
>
Seems we miss ALIGN here, no?
. = ALIGN(8);
> + .apicdrivers : AT(ADDR(.apicdrivers) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
> + __apicdrivers = .;
> + *(.apicdrivers);
> + __apicdrivers_end = .;
> + }
> +
...
--
Cyrill
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 23:45 [patch 0/6] x86: x2apic cluster optimizations and apic probe cleanups Suresh Siddha
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 1/6] x84_64, apic: use probe routines to simplify apic selection Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:40 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Use " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 2/6] x86, x2apic: remove duplicate code for IPI mask routines Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:41 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, x2apic: Remove " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 3/6] x86, x2apic: track the x2apic cluster sibling map Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:41 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, x2apic: Track " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 4/6] x86, x2apic: minimize IPI register writes using cluster groups Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:42 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, x2apic: Minimize " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 5/6] x86, x2apic: move the common bits to x2apic.h Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:42 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, x2apic: Move " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-05-19 23:45 ` [patch 6/6] x86, apic: use .apicdrivers section to find the list of apic drivers Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-20 17:41 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 14:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 14:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
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