x86: put initial_pg_tables into .bss
Impact: makes vmlinux section information more useful
Don't use ram after _end blindly for pagetables. aka init pages is before _end
put those pg table into .bss
[Adapted to use brk segment - Jeremy]
v2: keep initial page table up to 512M only.
v4: put initial page tables just before _end
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
index a1f28b8..98424f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@
DWARF_DEBUG
}
+/*
+ * Build-time check on the image size:
+ */
+ASSERT((_end - LOAD_OFFSET <= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE),
+ "kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE")
+
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
/* Link time checks */
#include <asm/kexec.h>