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- Lines: 13
- Date:
Sun Feb 15 12:11:23 1998
- Orig file:
v2.1.86/linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S
- Orig date:
Thu Feb 12 20:56:04 1998
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.86/linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S
@@ -637,3 +637,12 @@
.quad 0x00809a0000000000 /* 0x50 APM CS 16 code (16 bit) */
.quad 0x00c0920000000000 /* 0x58 APM DS data */
.fill 2*NR_TASKS,8,0 /* space for LDT's and TSS's etc */
+
+/*
+ * This is to aid debugging, the various locking macros will be putting
+ * code fragments here. When an oops occurs we'd rather know that it's
+ * inside the .text.lock section rather than as some offset from whatever
+ * function happens to be last in the .text segment.
+ */
+.section .text.lock
+ENTRY(stext_lock)
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