From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:53 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc2~79
X-Git-Url: https://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ceaa2f39bfa73c4398cd01e78f1c3ebde3d3383;p=net-next-2.6.git

decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC

The ARM kernel decompressor wants to be able to relocate r/w data
independently from the rest of the image, and we do this by ensuring that
r/w data has global visibility.  Define STATIC_RW_DATA to be empty to
achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
index 5032b9a31ae..ad5ec1d0475 100644
--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
@@ -14,11 +14,21 @@
 
 /* Code active when included from pre-boot environment: */
 
+/*
+ * Some architectures want to ensure there is no local data in their
+ * pre-boot environment, so that data can arbitarily relocated (via
+ * GOT references).  This is achieved by defining STATIC_RW_DATA to
+ * be null.
+ */
+#ifndef STATIC_RW_DATA
+#define STATIC_RW_DATA static
+#endif
+
 /* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from
  *  malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
  */
-static unsigned long malloc_ptr;
-static int malloc_count;
+STATIC_RW_DATA unsigned long malloc_ptr;
+STATIC_RW_DATA int malloc_count;
 
 static void *malloc(int size)
 {