From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759672AbZEFQUg (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:20:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754115AbZEFQU1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:20:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52377 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753584AbZEFQU0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 12:20:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4A01B8A5.9030902@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Abbott CC: Sam Ravnborg , Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Jeff Arnold , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned. References: <1241136098-10376-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1241136098-10376-2-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1241136098-10376-3-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1241136098-10376-4-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <1241136098-10376-4-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tim Abbott wrote: > .data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section. So, as > part of this cleanup I moved it into the .data output section in the > linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the > section name. "Should not need" is one thing, but personally I find that it enhances debuggability to not merge input sections with different attributes too much. They still get merged into single segments. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.