Re: [PATCH 0/2] section name cleanup for m68knommu

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

Hi Tim,

Tim Abbott wrote:
> This patch series cleans up the section names on the m68knommu
> architecture.  It requires the architecture-independent macro
> definitions from this patch series:
> 
> <http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg33499.html>
> 
> The long-term goal here is to add support for building the kernel with
> -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections.  This requires renaming all the
> magic section names in the kernel of the form .text.foo, .data.foo,
> .bss.foo, and .rodata.foo to not have collisions with sections
> generated for code like:
> 
> static int nosave = 0; /* -fdata-sections places in .data.nosave */
> static void head(); /* -ffunction-sections places in .text.head */
> 
> Note that these patches have not been boot-tested (aside from testing
> the analogous changes on x86), since I don't have access to the
> appropriate hardware.
> 
> 	-Tim Abbott
> 
> 
> Tim Abbott (2):
>   m68knommu: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section.
>   m68knommu: use new macros for .data.init_task.
> 
>  arch/m68knommu/kernel/init_task.c   |    3 +--
>  arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    6 ++----
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

I don't see any problems here for m68knommu.

Regards
Greg



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