From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>, Waseem Daher <wdaher@MIT.EDU>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned.
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A01B8A5.9030902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241136098-10376-4-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu>
Tim Abbott wrote:
> .data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section. So, as
> part of this cleanup I moved it into the .data output section in the
> linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the
> section name.
"Should not need" is one thing, but personally I find that it enhances
debuggability to not merge input sections with different attributes too
much. They still get merged into single segments.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-06 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-01 0:01 [PATCH 00/11] section name cleanup for x86 Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86: Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86: convert compressed loader to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86: convert " Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86: use NOSAVE_DATA macro for .data.nosave section Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86: use new macros for .data.init_task Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86: fix fragile computation of vsyscall address Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86: use new macro for .data.read_mostly section Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 0:01 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86: convert to new generic read_mostly support Tim Abbott
2009-05-06 16:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 00/11] section name cleanup for x86 Ingo Molnar
2009-05-01 12:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 15:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-01 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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