[PATCH v3 08/10] arm64: Promote KERNEL_START/KERNEL_END definitions to a header file

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Thu Nov 26 09:32:46 PST 2015


KERNEL_START and KERNEL_END are useful outside head.S, move them to a
header file.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S        | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index 853953cd1f08..5773a6629f10 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
 
 #define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE	(PAGE_ALIGN(TASK_SIZE / 4))
 
+#define KERNEL_START      _text
+#define KERNEL_END        _end
+
 /*
  * Physical vs virtual RAM address space conversion.  These are
  * private definitions which should NOT be used outside memory.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 7cec62a76f50..c58ede3398db 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@
 #error TEXT_OFFSET must be less than 2MB
 #endif
 
-#define KERNEL_START	_text
-#define KERNEL_END	_end
-
 /*
  * Kernel startup entry point.
  * ---------------------------
-- 
2.6.2




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