From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:44:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411074414.GC3752@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070410223658.GC7092@Krystal>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Defines the linker marcro EXTRA_RWDATA for marker data section. It
> puts the marker data in a separate section that will not pollute the
> normal .data section, which minimize the cache impact. Markers need such
> a special section because they define a lot of spreaded and small data
> structures at multiple sites.
>
> This patch also creates the __markers_strings section (ro marker
> strings) and makes sure the __markers section is aligned by putting it
> before the __ksymtab_strings (not after).
What's this marker stuff about?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 22:36 [PATCH] markers-linker-generic Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-m68knommu Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:49 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-mips Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:50 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-parisc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:51 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:52 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-ppc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:53 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-s390 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:54 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sh Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:54 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sh64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:55 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sparc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:56 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sparc64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:57 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-um Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:58 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-v850 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:58 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-x86_64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:59 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-xtensa Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 7:44 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-04-11 17:51 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-generic Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 18:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 19:21 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 21:45 ` Jim Keniston
2007-04-12 0:21 ` Vara Prasad
2007-04-11 20:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 22:58 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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