From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.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 10:53:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9D0AF3.9070100@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110406220510.GA17350@frolo.macqel>
On 07/04/11 08:05, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Impact for m68knommu:
>> - The table is now stored in .data instead of .text,
>
> Do you mean .rodata ?
>
>> - Removed unused padding at the end of the table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven<geert@linux-m68k.org>
>> ---
>> Not tested on m68knommu
>>
>> Questions:
>> - Why was it .text?
>
> Probably because it is constanti (read-only).
Yes, I suspect that was the original thinking. It has been that way
for a very long time (it is in .text in the 2.4 kernel patches for
this too).
I will test them on m68knommu today, I am sure moving to .data (really
rodata) will be fine.
Regards
Greg
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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 [this message]
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
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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