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										 |  |  | #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_
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							|  |  |  | #define _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_
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												vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations
The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been
expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion.
Patch 1-7:
	1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
	2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
Patch 8:
	Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and
	get_num_physpages()
Patch 9:
	Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime
Patch 10:
	Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c
Patch 11-40:
	Modify arch mm initialization code to:
	1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info()
	2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages
Patch 41:
	Kill the global variable num_physpages
With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem()
could be as simple as below.  This patch series has reduced about 1.2K
lines of code in total.
#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
void __init
mem_init(void)
{
	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
	free_all_bootmem();
	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
	mem_init_print_info(NULL);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */
void
free_initmem(void)
{
	free_initmem_default(-1);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
void
free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd");
}
#endif
Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64.
And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are:
Log message before applying patches:
Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init)
Log message after applying patches:
Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved)
Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC.
This patch:
Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.
1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
   from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
											
										 
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										 |  |  | /*
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							|  |  |  |  * Usage guidelines: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in arch-independent code | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain .rodata.* | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *                   and/or .init.* sections | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [_sdata, _edata]: contains .data.* sections, may also contain .rodata.* | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *                   and/or .init.* sections. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [__start_rodata, __end_rodata]: contains .rodata.* sections | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [__init_begin, __init_end]: contains .init.* sections, but .init.text.* | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *                   may be out of this range on some architectures. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [_sinittext, _einittext]: contains .init.text.* sections | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * [__bss_start, __bss_stop]: contains BSS sections | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |  * Following global variables are optional and may be unavailable on some | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  * architectures and/or kernel configurations. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *	_text, _data | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *	__kprobes_text_start, __kprobes_text_end | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *	__entry_text_start, __entry_text_end | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  *	__ctors_start, __ctors_end | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |  */ | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[]; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[]; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[]; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[]; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[]; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char _end[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | extern char __entry_text_start[], __entry_text_end[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | /* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | extern char __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[]; | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | /* function descriptor handling (if any).  Override
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							|  |  |  |  * in asm/sections.h */ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | #ifndef dereference_function_descriptor
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							|  |  |  | #define dereference_function_descriptor(p) (p)
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							|  |  |  | #endif
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										 |  |  | /* random extra sections (if any).  Override
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							|  |  |  |  * in asm/sections.h */ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | #ifndef arch_is_kernel_text
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							|  |  |  | static inline int arch_is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	return 0; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | } | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | #endif
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							|  |  |  | #ifndef arch_is_kernel_data
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							|  |  |  | static inline int arch_is_kernel_data(unsigned long addr) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	return 0; | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | } | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | #endif
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										 |  |  | #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_ */
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