From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:56068 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754273AbXFOVyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:54:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:55:34 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Message-ID: <20070615215534.GB11267@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070615202959.316963297@polymtl.ca> <20070615203550.044690775@polymtl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070615203550.044690775@polymtl.ca> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Mathieu. On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:30:00PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > EXTRARW_DATA adds a place to declare rw data that will not be mixed with the > .data content; therefore limiting data cache pollution when data is put in > the EXTRARW_DATA sections. I would suggest to embed this inside DATA_DATA in vmlinux.lds.h That seems reasonsable to do instead of adding it right after DATA_DATA for all archs. >From your patch it looks like I originally missed out powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if you could fix that. Sam