From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2EA719.2000608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090609181157.GA7181@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>>> Why do we need *(.data .data.*) rather than *(.data*)?
>>> *(.dynbss*)?
>> I don't have any strong opinion here, but the former is exactly what the
>> default linker script has.
>
> My general take on this is that we should know and deal with what the linker produces.
> So if we only expect .data then .data.* could go into .broken so we catch it.
>
That will break if we change to per-function sections.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 14:05 [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 15:25 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-05 16:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 7:32 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 20:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09 7:26 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09 7:52 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-09 7:57 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09 8:09 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-09 8:29 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-06-09 19:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
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