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    x86: use ELF section to list CPU vendor specific code · 03ae5768
    Thomas Petazzoni authored
    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: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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