decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC
authorRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:53 +0000 (15:23 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:58:03 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
commit 5ceaa2f39bfa73c4398cd01e78f1c3ebde3d3383 upstream.

The ARM kernel decompressor wants to be able to relocate r/w data
independently from the rest of the image, and we do this by ensuring that
r/w data has global visibility.  Define STATIC_RW_DATA to be empty to
achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/linux/decompress/mm.h

index 12ff8c3f1d053f471c14e5f74ad50bf0355ebfa8..3e9bd6ae10c0a8096f08e6645ebb77b42205d32b 100644 (file)
 
 /* Code active when included from pre-boot environment: */
 
+/*
+ * Some architectures want to ensure there is no local data in their
+ * pre-boot environment, so that data can arbitarily relocated (via
+ * GOT references).  This is achieved by defining STATIC_RW_DATA to
+ * be null.
+ */
+#ifndef STATIC_RW_DATA
+#define STATIC_RW_DATA static
+#endif
+
 /* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from
  *  malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
  */
-static unsigned long malloc_ptr;
-static int malloc_count;
+STATIC_RW_DATA unsigned long malloc_ptr;
+STATIC_RW_DATA int malloc_count;
 
 static void *malloc(int size)
 {