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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: generalize/fix wchan calculation via ELF sections
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:30:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403311330.12089.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040331073539.GX791@holomorphy.com>

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 09:35, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Basically, I'm looking to see if I flubbed the patch and may not have
> swept all arches properly, or whether arch maintainers dislike whatever
> aspects of it since it goes poking around their code. Whatever kind of
> feedback may be relevant wrt. methods/cleanliness/etc. is also good.

> Index: sched-2.6.5-rc3/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- sched-2.6.5-rc3.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2004-03-29 19:25:34.000000000 -0800
> +++ sched-2.6.5-rc3/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      2004-03-30 23:25:36.000000000 -0800
> @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
>    _text = .;                   /* Text and read-only data */
>    .text : {
>         *(.text)
> +       __scheduling_functions_start_here = .;
> +       *(.sched.text)
> +       __scheduling_functions_end_here = .;
>         *(.fixup)
>         *(.gnu.warning)
>         } = 0x9090

No objections, just an idea: It might be good to put the vmlinux.lds.S
changes into a macro in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h. IIRC, that's
what that file was introduced for, although it's not used for many things
so far.

	Arnd <><

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-31 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-31  7:35 generalize/fix wchan calculation via ELF sections William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-31  8:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-31  8:13   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-31 11:30 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2004-03-31 13:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-04-01  7:17 ` David S. Miller
2004-04-01  7:58 ` Anton Blanchard

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