[RFC,V5,1/4] ACPI: Add support for sentinel-delimited probe tables

[nhillery@codeaurora.org (Nathan Hillery)]

Tables declared with the ACPI_PROBE_TABLE linker macro are typically
traversed by using the start and end symbols created by the linker
script. However, there are some APIs that use sentinel-delimited
tables (e.g. acpi_match_device). To better support these APIs, this
patch adds a section at the end of the probe table. This section can
be used to add a sentinel for tables that require it.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Hillery <nhillery@codeaurora.org>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index af24057..5894049 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@
 	. = ALIGN(8);							\
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table) = .;		\
 	KEEP(*(__##name##_acpi_probe_table))				\
-	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table_end) = .;
+	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__##name##_acpi_probe_table_end) = .;		\
+	KEEP(*(__##name##_acpi_probe_table_end))
 #else
 #define ACPI_PROBE_TABLE(name)
 #endif
-- 
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