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Josh Poimboeuf
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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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.