[PATCH 13/14] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table.

Tim Abbott
2009-04-27T20:34:22Z

The .data.idt section is just squashed into the .data.page_aligned
output section by the linker script anyway, so it might as well be in
the .data.page_aligned section.

This eliminates all references to .data.idt on x86.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++----
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index a1d2883..d7affb7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -73,11 +73,9 @@ char ignore_fpu_irq;

/*
* The IDT has to be page-aligned to simplify the Pentium
- * F0 0F bug workaround.. We have a special link segment
- * for this.
+ * F0 0F bug workaround.
*/
-gate_desc idt_table[256]
- __attribute__((__section__(".data.idt"))) = { { { { 0, 0 } } }, };
+gate_desc idt_table[256] __page_aligned_data = { { { { 0, 0 } } }, };
#endif

DECLARE_BITMAP(used_vectors, NR_VECTORS);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
index 594aabc..a57d39c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
.data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.page_aligned)
- *(.data.idt)
}

. = ALIGN(32);
--
1.6.2.1