From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>, Waseem Daher <wdaher@MIT.EDU>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:27:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301.1240954032@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240938062-3264-2-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu>
Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of
> ".bss.page_aligned" and ".data.page_aligned" in the kernel with
> macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having
> to touch a lot of the kernel.
>
> The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic
> section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections
> -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names
> of the form ".data.foo".
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-28 17:00 [PATCH v2 00/15] clean up page aligned data and bss sections Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] Add new macros for page-aligned " Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] sh: Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] mn10300: " Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] xtensa: " Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] x86: " Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] alpha: Use macros for .data.page_aligned Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] avr32: Use standard macros for .data.page_aligned section Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] sh: Use " Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] s390: Use macros for .data.page_aligned Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] powerpc: Remove unused __page_aligned macro Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] powerpc: share .data output section definition between 32 and 64 bits Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] powerpc: Use macros for .data.page_aligned section Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:01 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] mn10300: Drop unused .data.idt section Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:01 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 17:01 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned Tim Abbott
2009-04-28 21:27 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] mn10300: Drop unused .data.idt section David Howells
2009-04-28 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] powerpc: Use macros for .data.page_aligned section Paul Mackerras
2009-04-28 21:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] mn10300: Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section David Howells
2009-04-28 21:27 ` David Howells [this message]
2009-04-28 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] clean up page aligned data and bss sections Tim Abbott
2009-04-29 20:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
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