[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: add .data.page_aligned section

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

... and move page-aligned data there, instead of having random holes
(to fulfill the demanded alignment) in the final image.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- 2010-03-02.orig/xen/arch/x86/boot/x86_32.S  2008-09-23 09:17:27.000000000 
+0200
+++ 2010-03-02/xen/arch/x86/boot/x86_32.S       2010-03-09 14:34:38.000000000 
+0100
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ ignore_int:
         jnz     0b
 1:      jmp     1b
 
+        .data
+        ALIGN
 ENTRY(stack_start)
         .long cpu0_stack
         
@@ -88,6 +90,7 @@ ENTRY(idle_pg_table)
         .long sym_phys(idle_pg_table_l2) + 2*PAGE_SIZE + 0x01, 0
         .long sym_phys(idle_pg_table_l2) + 3*PAGE_SIZE + 0x01, 0
 
+        .section .data.page_aligned, "aw", @progbits
         .align PAGE_SIZE, 0
 /* NB. Rings != 0 get access up to MACH2PHYS_VIRT_END. This allows access to */
 /*     the machine->physical mapping table. Ring 0 can access all memory.    */
--- 2010-03-02.orig/xen/arch/x86/boot/x86_64.S  2008-09-23 09:17:27.000000000 
+0200
+++ 2010-03-02/xen/arch/x86/boot/x86_64.S       2010-03-09 14:35:26.000000000 
+0100
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ ignore_int:
 
 /*** DESCRIPTOR TABLES ***/
 
-        .align 8, 0xCC
+        .data
+        .align 8
 multiboot_ptr:
         .long   0
 
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ idt_descr:
 ENTRY(stack_start)
         .quad   cpu0_stack
 
+        .section .data.page_aligned, "aw", @progbits
         .align PAGE_SIZE, 0
 ENTRY(boot_cpu_gdt_table)
         .quad 0x0000000000000000     /* unused */
--- 2010-03-02.orig/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/compat_kexec.S  2007-07-04 
12:13:16.000000000 +0200
+++ 2010-03-02/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/compat_kexec.S       2010-03-09 
14:36:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ compatibility_mode:
         call *%eax
         ud2
 
+        .data
+        .align 4
 compat_page_list:
         .fill 12,4,0
 
@@ -166,7 +168,8 @@ compat_pg_table:
         .long SYM_PHYS(compat_pg_table_l2) + 2*PAGE_SIZE + 0x01, 0
         .long SYM_PHYS(compat_pg_table_l2) + 3*PAGE_SIZE + 0x01, 0
 
-        .align 4096,0
+        .section .data.page_aligned, "aw", @progbits
+        .align PAGE_SIZE,0
 
 compat_pg_table_l2:
         .macro identmap from=0, count=512
--- 2010-03-02.orig/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S      2010-01-18 09:34:04.000000000 
+0100
+++ 2010-03-02/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S   2010-03-09 14:33:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ SECTIONS
   } :text
 
   .data : {                    /* Data */
+       *(.data.page_aligned)
        *(.data)
        CONSTRUCTORS
   } :text

x86-pagealigned-data.patch
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