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x86: use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code

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Replace the hardcoded list of initialization functions for each CPU
vendor by a list in an ELF section, which is read at initialization in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.c to fill the cpu_devs[] array. The ELF
section, named .x86cpuvendor.init, is reclaimed after boot, and
contains entries of type "struct cpu_vendor_dev" which associates a
vendor number with a pointer to a "struct cpu_dev" structure.

This first modification allows to remove all the VENDOR_init_cpu()
functions.

This patch also removes the hardcoded calls to early_init_amd() and
early_init_intel(). Instead, we add a "c_early_init" member to the
cpu_dev structure, which is then called if not NULL by the generic CPU
initialization code. Unfortunately, in early_cpu_detect(), this_cpu is
not yet set, so we have to use the cpu_devs[] array directly.

This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is needed for
further patch that will allow to disable compilation of unused CPU
support code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-15 12:00:23 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent bc7c314d70
commit 03ae5768b6
10 changed files with 46 additions and 69 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
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@@ -439,11 +439,7 @@ static struct cpu_dev cyrix_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
.c_identify = cyrix_identify,
};
int __init cyrix_init_cpu(void)
{
cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX] = &cyrix_cpu_dev;
return 0;
}
cpu_vendor_dev_register(X86_VENDOR_CYRIX, &cyrix_cpu_dev);
static struct cpu_dev nsc_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
.c_vendor = "NSC",
@@ -451,9 +447,4 @@ static struct cpu_dev nsc_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = {
.c_init = init_nsc,
};
int __init nsc_init_cpu(void)
{
cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_NSC] = &nsc_cpu_dev;
return 0;
}
cpu_vendor_dev_register(X86_VENDOR_NSC, &nsc_cpu_dev);