From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Rani Assaf <rani@paname.org>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Changes to head.S
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:56:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020303225630.A16898@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020303185049.A1788@paname.org>; from rani@paname.org on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:50:49PM +0100
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Rani Assaf wrote:
> /*
> * Align to 8kb boundary for init_task_union which follows in the
> * .text segment.
> */
> .text
> .align 13
>
> Any idea why they have been removed?
init_task_union lives in it's own section which has 8kB alignment. So if
you're observing an alignment problem I suspect you're using a too old
egcs 1.1.2 variant.
> BTW, print_memory_map() (in kernel.c) now uses long long format
> without casting (which obviously gives wrong numbers on 32bits archs).
Yes and we preferably want to get rid of long long anyway.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-03 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-03 17:50 Changes to head.S Rani Assaf
2002-03-03 21:56 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-03-03 22:04 ` Rani Assaf
2002-03-03 22:19 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-03-03 22:54 ` Rani Assaf
2002-03-03 23:32 ` Ralf Baechle
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