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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: vmlinux_64.lds.S - use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:22:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080204202241.GA16919@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080204171037.GA6743@cvg>

Hi Cyrill.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:10:37PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>

The patch looks simple but please explain why you do what you do.
It took me some digging before I could convince mysleft this was
indeed a correct change.
And I am pretty sure you did the same investigation yourself.

A comment like:

arch/x866/kernel/inittask.c require all variables allocated in
the section .data.init_task to be aligned with THREAD_SIZE.

would have made me happy.

	Sam

> ---
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S	2008-01-30 17:51:57.000000000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S	2008-02-03 22:38:48.000000000 +0300
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ SECTIONS
>  #undef VVIRT_OFFSET
>  #undef VVIRT
>  
> -  . = ALIGN(8192);		/* init_task */
> +  . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);	/* init_task */
>    .data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
>  	*(.data.init_task)
>    }:data.init

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 17:10 [PATCH] x86: vmlinux_64.lds.S - use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-04 20:22 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-02-04 20:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 20:39     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-04 21:12       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-04 21:26         ` Sam Ravnborg

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