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From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: add PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA to linker script
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:18:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381493921.8305.63.camel@deneb.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009101447.GC5985@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>

On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:14 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ SECTIONS
> >                */
> >               INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE)
> >               NOSAVE_DATA
> > +             PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
> >               CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(64)
> >               READ_MOSTLY_DATA(64)
> 
> Can we just replace this chunk with RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE,
> THREAD_SIZE) instead?
> 

I took a look at this. It can be done, but the RW_DATA_SECTION aligns
data to PAGE_SIZE where the existing alignment is THREAD_SIZE. So using
RW_DATA_SECTION would waste some space if using 64K pagesize.

--Mark



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-11 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 20:37 [PATCH] arm64: add PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA to linker script Mark Salter
2013-10-09 10:14 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-09 17:31   ` Mark Salter
2013-10-11 12:18   ` Mark Salter [this message]
2013-11-01 15:01     ` Mark Salter
2013-11-01 16:17       ` Will Deacon
2013-11-04 11:28     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-11-04 16:38       ` [PATCH] arm64: use generic RW_DATA_SECTION macro in " Mark Salter
2013-11-04 17:20         ` Will Deacon
2013-11-04 18:19         ` Catalin Marinas

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