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* [POWERPC] 32-bit early_init() should zero from __bss_start to __bss_stop only
@ 2006-10-25 23:36 Mark A. Greer
  2006-10-26  0:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mark A. Greer @ 2006-10-25 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Mackerras; +Cc: linuxppc-dev

Currently, early_init() in setup_32.c zeroes from '_bss_start' to '_end'.
It should only zero from '__bss_start' to '__bss_stop'.  This patch does that.

Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
---

 setup_32.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
index a4c2964..c682e9a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ unsigned long __init early_init(unsigned
 
 	/* First zero the BSS -- use memset_io, some platforms don't have
 	 * caches on yet */
-	memset_io((void __iomem *)PTRRELOC(&__bss_start), 0, _end - __bss_start);
+	memset_io((void __iomem *)PTRRELOC(&__bss_start), 0,
+			__bss_stop - __bss_start);
 
 	/*
 	 * Identify the CPU type and fix up code sections

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