[PATCH 09/12] platform/early: add an init section for early driver data

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Bartosz,

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
>
> Provide a separate section in which pointers to early platform driver
> structs will be stored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -214,6 +214,16 @@
>  #define CPU_METHOD_OF_TABLES() OF_TABLE(CONFIG_SMP, cpu_method)
>  #define CPUIDLE_METHOD_OF_TABLES() OF_TABLE(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE, cpuidle_method)
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PLATFORM
> +#define EARLY_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_TABLE()                                 \
> +       . = ALIGN(8);                                                   \

Should this use STRUCT_ALIGN() instead?

> +       VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__early_platform_drivers_table) = .;             \
> +       KEEP(*(__early_platform_drivers_table))                         \
> +       VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__early_platform_drivers_table_end) = .;
> +#else
> +#define EARLY_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_TABLE()
> +#endif

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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