Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures

Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17T04:26:12Z

* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> Hi Mathieu.
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:30:00PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > EXTRARW_DATA adds a place to declare rw data that will not be mixed with the
> > .data content; therefore limiting data cache pollution when data is put in
> > the EXTRARW_DATA sections.
>
> I would suggest to embed this inside DATA_DATA in vmlinux.lds.h
> That seems reasonsable to do instead of adding it right after DATA_DATA
> for all archs.
>
Yes, it will be in my next release,

> From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
> powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
> you could fix that.
>
> Sam

Done.

Thanks,

Mathieu