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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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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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  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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