build: add __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss

Making a variable page-aligned by using
__attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if
sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves
variables in the remainder of the section unaligned.

This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and
__page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of
variables.  This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the
linker will make sure they're aligned properly.  Unfortunately it
requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros...

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
index 631ea6cc01d..fc1a56da824 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_cpu_pda);
 
 struct desc_ptr idt_descr = { 256 * 16 - 1, (unsigned long) idt_table };
 
-char boot_cpu_stack[IRQSTACKSIZE] __attribute__((section(".bss.page_aligned")));
+char boot_cpu_stack[IRQSTACKSIZE] __page_aligned_bss;
 
 unsigned long __supported_pte_mask __read_mostly = ~0UL;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__supported_pte_mask);