Attempt at addressing head*.S for modpost warnings

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Kumar,
>
> [sorry for the slow reply]
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:49:04 -0500 (CDT) Kumar Gala  
> <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>
>> Paul said you were looking into this issue as well.  Wanted to  
>> post what I
>> did on ppc32/e500 as a start for you to look at.  I think the  
>> other ppc32
>> head*.S can follow the same pattern if we like this.  However,  
>> wasn't sure
>> how to do _ENTRY() for ppc64.
>
> What I have done so far is to put some peices of the asm code into
> the .text.init.refok section (see the _INIT_STATIC macro in asm/ 
> ppc_asm.h
> in the current kernel).  I was hoping to separate some of the asm  
> into a
> new file (init_64.S) that would contain this and other code in
> the .init.text section.  That is currently not working (ld crashed on
> me :-)).
>
> Even if you create a .text.head, you will need to teach modpost  
> about it.

Modpost is already aware of .text.head.  Its used on x86 and a few  
other archs today.

- k