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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2010-09-02 19:35:22 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-10-05 22:16:54 -0700 |
| commit | 161b0275e2311b8bd9609d5f32e2b703cf5d70a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fd31302464ad7a0582fd54433c997c4750b08da | |
| parent | 3ee48b6af49cf534ca2f481ecc484b156a41451d (diff) | |
x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper
This is useful when converting static arrays into boot-time brk
allocated objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C805EEA.1080205@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h index ef292c792d7..d6763b139a8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align); : : "i" (sz)); \ } +/* Helper for reserving space for arrays of things */ +#define RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY(type, name, entries) \ + type *name; \ + RESERVE_BRK(name, sizeof(type) * entries) + #ifdef __i386__ void __init i386_start_kernel(void); |