From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@greatcn.org>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] more i386 head.S cleanups
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:14:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <407E98BB.5070502@greatcn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406ECAE7.1020407@quark.didntduck.org>
Brian Gerst wrote:
> - Move empty_zero_page and swapper_pg_dir to BSS. This requires that
> BSS is cleared earlier, but reclaims over 3k that was lost due to page
> alignment.
> - Move stack_start, ready, and int_msg, boot_gdt_descr, idt_descr, and
> cpu_gdt_descr to .data. They were interfering with disassembly while in
> .text.
>
Interesting, two years ago in 2002, you sent a patch basically of the
same idea.
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/0850.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-15 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-03 14:32 [PATCH] more i386 head.S cleanups Brian Gerst
2004-04-03 16:02 ` Matt Mackall
2004-04-03 22:48 ` Brian Gerst
2004-04-03 23:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-04-15 14:14 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2004-04-15 14:19 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-04-15 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
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