x86: provide __parainstructions section
This patch adds the __parainstructions section to vmlinux.lds.S.
It's needed for the patching system.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 7457370..0992b99 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -178,6 +178,14 @@
}
__con_initcall_end = .;
SECURITY_INIT
+
+ . = ALIGN(8);
+ .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __parainstructions = .;
+ *(.parainstructions)
+ __parainstructions_end = .;
+ }
+
. = ALIGN(8);
__alt_instructions = .;
.altinstructions : AT(ADDR(.altinstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {