Merge branches 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/microcode' and 'core/objtool' into x86/urgent...

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / arch / s390 / include / asm / sections.h

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
index 724faede8ac52d565db7b4f4d5dd40391030e9d6..7afe4620685c93aac9b4bb9efaf196aacd4b055c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -4,4 +4,16 @@
 
 #include <asm-generic/sections.h>
 
+/*
+ * .boot.data section contains variables "shared" between the decompressor and
+ * the decompressed kernel. The decompressor will store values in them, and
+ * copy over to the decompressed image before starting it.
+ *
+ * Each variable end up in its own intermediate section .boot.data.<var name>,
+ * those sections are later sorted by alignment + name and merged together into
+ * final .boot.data section, which should be identical in the decompressor and
+ * the decompressed kernel (that is checked during the build).
+ */
+#define __bootdata(var) __section(.boot.data.var) var
+
 #endif