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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-13 10:35:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-13 10:35:48 -0700 |
| commit | c029b55af7d6b02b993e8a5add78d062da7a3940 (patch) | |
| tree | eda9177a8d42324927424b3c42a99606ac6a4080 /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | 96054569190bdec375fe824e48ca1f4e3b53dd36 (diff) | |
| parent | 417484d47e115774745ef025bce712a102b6f86f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner
x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol()
x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/page.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h index 625c3f0e741..8ca82839288 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ static inline void copy_user_page(void *to, void *from, unsigned long vaddr, #define __pa_nodebug(x) __phys_addr_nodebug((unsigned long)(x)) /* __pa_symbol should be used for C visible symbols. This seems to be the official gcc blessed way to do such arithmetic. */ +/* + * We need __phys_reloc_hide() here because gcc may assume that there is no + * overflow during __pa() calculation and can optimize it unexpectedly. + * Newer versions of gcc provide -fno-strict-overflow switch to handle this + * case properly. Once all supported versions of gcc understand it, we can + * remove this Voodoo magic stuff. (i.e. once gcc3.x is deprecated) + */ #define __pa_symbol(x) __pa(__phys_reloc_hide((unsigned long)(x))) #define __va(x) ((void *)((unsigned long)(x)+PAGE_OFFSET)) |