From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161390AbWJZNvJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:51:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161391AbWJZNvJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:51:09 -0400 Received: from gwmail.nue.novell.com ([195.135.221.19]:15748 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161390AbWJZNvI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:51:08 -0400 Message-Id: <4540D9CF.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:52:47 +0200 From: "Jan Beulich" To: Cc: "Andi Kleen" , "linux kernel mailing list" , "Ian Campbell" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Some vmlinux.lds.S cleanups References: <20061024210140.GB14225@in.ibm.com> <45407B05.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061026134442.GA11284@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061026134442.GA11284@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Vivek Goyal 26.10.06 15:44 >>> >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:08:21AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> I was about to ack it when I saw that you left .bss in init - that doesn't seem >> too good an idea... Jan >> > >Should I create a separate program header say "bss" for .bss section? Last >time when I suggested it you said there is no need to create a separate >program header for bss. No, I continue to think .bss naturally belongs at the end of the data segment. >More program headers we create, we need to make sure that they are on page >size boundaries so that kexec on vmlinux does not break. Jan