[PATCH 07/12] powerpc/prom_init: Move ibm_arch_vec to __prombss

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Oct 15 13:49:55 AEDT 2018


Make the existing initialized definition constant and copy
it to a __prombss copy

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index 70f2bde06ab3..03b171bb1c29 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ struct ibm_arch_vec {
 	struct option_vector6 vec6;
 } __packed;
 
-struct ibm_arch_vec __cacheline_aligned ibm_architecture_vec = {
+static const struct ibm_arch_vec ibm_architecture_vec_template = {
 	.pvrs = {
 		{
 			.mask = cpu_to_be32(0xfffe0000), /* POWER5/POWER5+ */
@@ -926,6 +926,8 @@ struct ibm_arch_vec __cacheline_aligned ibm_architecture_vec = {
 	},
 };
 
+static struct ibm_arch_vec __prombss ibm_architecture_vec  ____cacheline_aligned;
+
 /* Old method - ELF header with PT_NOTE sections only works on BE */
 #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
 static const struct fake_elf {
@@ -1135,6 +1137,10 @@ static void __init prom_check_platform_support(void)
 	};
 	int prop_len = prom_getproplen(prom.chosen,
 				       "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support");
+
+	/* First copy the architecture vec template */
+	ibm_architecture_vec = ibm_architecture_vec_template;
+
 	if (prop_len > 1) {
 		int i;
 		u8 vec[prop_len];
-- 
2.17.1



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