• Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
    build: add __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss · a7bf0bd5
    Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
    Making a variable page-aligned by using
    __attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if
    sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves
    variables in the remainder of the section unaligned.
    
    This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and
    __page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of
    variables.  This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the
    linker will make sure they're aligned properly.  Unfortunately it
    requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros...
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    a7bf0bd5
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