From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tomts36.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93]:55664 "EHLO tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752513AbXFQEZ5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:25:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:30:10 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Message-ID: <20070617023010.GD6832@Krystal> References: <20070615202959.316963297@polymtl.ca> <20070615203550.044690775@polymtl.ca> <20070615215534.GB11267@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070615215534.GB11267@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * 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 -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68