From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932186AbWGRMvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932179AbWGRMvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:51:51 -0400 Received: from mtagate6.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.139]:33592 "EHLO mtagate6.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932186AbWGRMvu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:51:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] s390: .align 4096 statements in head.S From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: References: <20060718115622.GE20884@skybase> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:51:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1153227104.9681.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:43 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Hardcoading like that can cause hard to find errors. It looks like > you wrote something in 'C' and tried to use its assembly code. You > should know that you don't need ".fill" if you have correctly > allocated > data. Huh ?!? We are talking about head.S here. That is pure assembler, no C anywhere. It is the startup code of the kernel, and we do want to control where things end up. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.