From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751010AbXDKHo3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:44:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751006AbXDKHo3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:44:29 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:3769 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751010AbXDKHo1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:44:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:44:15 +0100 From: Russell King To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic Message-ID: <20070411074414.GC3752@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070410223658.GC7092@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070410223658.GC7092@Krystal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ maintainer of: