From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:30:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070617023010.GD6832@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615215534.GB11267@uranus.ravnborg.org>
* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, it will be in my next release,
> 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
Done.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070615202959.316963297@polymtl.ca>
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 21:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-17 2:28 ` [PATCH] Use DATA_DATA in cris Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17 2:29 ` [PATCH] Add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17 2:29 ` [PATCH] Use DATA_DATA in xtensa Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17 2:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
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