x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 May 2022 12:14:32 +0000 (14:14 +0200)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 6 May 2022 13:26:33 +0000 (15:26 +0200)
commita1e2c031ec3949b8c039b739c0b5bf9c30007b00
tree9b7eca3fb8913cd729f48809cd2806b7dc060751
parentc89191ce67efa4e5353db6a67f7287c28e673740
x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()

RESERVE_BRK() reserves data in the .brk_reservation section.  The data
is initialized to zero, like BSS, so the macro specifies 'nobits' to
prevent the data from taking up space in the vmlinux binary.  The only
way to get the compiler to do that (without putting the variable in .bss
proper) is to use inline asm.

The macro also has a hack which encloses the inline asm in a discarded
function, which allows the size to be passed (global inline asm doesn't
allow inputs).

Remove the need for the discarded function hack by just stringifying the
size rather than supplying it as an input to the inline asm.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506121631.133110232@infradead.org
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h