To be able to relocate the .bss section at run time independently from
the rest of the code, we must make sure that no GOTOFF relocations are
used with .bss symbols. This usually means that no global variables can
be marked static unless they're also const.
Let's remove the static qualifier from current offenders, or turn them
into const variables when possible. Next commit will ensure the build
fails if one of those is reintroduced due to otherwise enforced coding
standards for the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Due to commit:
5de813b ARM: Eliminate decompressor -Dstatic= PIC hack
The data section will be discarded for the decompressor, thus move the
static variables into BSS section by initializing them at run time.
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
"""The Marvell® PXA168 processor is the first in a family of application
processors targeted at mass market opportunities in computing and consumer
devices. It balances high computing and multimedia performance with low
power consumption to support extended battery life, and includes a wealth
of integrated peripherals to reduce overall BOM cost .... """
See http://www.marvell.com/featured/pxa168.jsp for more information.
1. Marvell Mohawk core is a hybrid of xscale3 and its own ARM core,
there are many enhancements like instructions for flushing the
whole D-cache, and so on
2. Clock reuses Russell's common clkdev, and added the basic support
for UART1/2.
3. Devices are a bit different from the 'mach-pxa' way, the platform
devices are now dynamically allocated only when necessary (i.e.
when pxa_register_device() is called). Description for each device
are stored in an array of 'struct pxa_device_desc'. Now that:
a. this array of device description is marked with __initdata and
can be freed up system is fully up
b. which means board code has to add all needed devices early in
his initializing function
c. platform specific data can now be marked as __initdata since
they are allocated and copied by platform_device_add_data()
4. only the basic UART1/2/3 are added, more devices will come later.
Signed-off-by: Jason Chagas <chagas@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Nicolas Pitre