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From: "Gavin Lambert" <gavinl@compacsort.com>
To: 'Greg Ungerer' <gerg@snapgear.com>,
	'uClinux development list' <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>
Cc: 'Philippe De Muyter' <phdm@macqel.be>,
	'Geert Uytterhoeven' <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	'Linux/m68k' <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: RE: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH] m68k: Merge mmu and non-mmu versions of sys_call_table
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:13:56 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01cbf4d1$d50e2f90$7f2a8eb0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9D24BB.3060804@snapgear.com>

Quoth Greg Ungerer:
>> Doesn't that have XIP consequences?  .text (and presumably .rodata) 
>> can be stored and executed from ROM, since they can't be changed at 
>> runtime.  .data has to be in RAM, since it can be.
>
> Yes, but even in the kernel XIP case the very early startup code
> moves the kernels data to RAM. Well before the system call table
> will be needed.

But presumably if the syscall table was previously in .text, it was not
subject to this.  And now it will be.

I doubt this would actually break anything (as you've already confirmed),
since it's only a tiny RAM usage increase, but unless there's some reason
for the syscall table to be read-write it seems a bit odd.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 20:33 [PATCH] m68k: Merge mmu and non-mmu versions of sys_call_table Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-06 22:05 ` [uClinux-dev] " Philippe De Muyter
     [not found] ` <20110406220510.GA17350@frolo.macqel>
2011-04-07  0:53   ` Greg Ungerer
2011-04-07  2:12     ` Gavin Lambert
     [not found]     ` <000301cbf4c9$40339fc0$c09adf40$@com>
2011-04-07  2:43       ` Greg Ungerer
2011-04-07  3:13         ` Gavin Lambert [this message]
2011-04-07  4:14           ` Greg Ungerer
     [not found]           ` <4D9D3A28.9060104@snapgear.com>
2011-04-07  7:04             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-07  8:29               ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-07  8:35                 ` Philippe De Muyter
2011-04-07  8:39                   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-13 18:03             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-07  1:53 ` Greg Ungerer
2011-04-13 18:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-17 20:13   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19  4:32     ` Greg Ungerer
2011-04-19  8:21       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19  8:30         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-19  8:52         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19 12:26         ` Greg Ungerer

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