From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754705Ab0HZXs3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:48:29 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59257 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752612Ab0HZXs2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:48:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4C76FD29.9040903@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:47:53 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86/iommu: Add IOMMU_INIT macros, .iommu_table section, and iommu_table_entry structure. References: <1282845485-8991-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <1282845485-8991-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <20100826181913.GA5947@merkur.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20100826181913.GA5947@merkur.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/26/2010 11:19 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > So we have yet another magic section in vmlinux.lds.S > A nice comemnt that expalins what this is used for and why > it is discardable etc. would be nice. > > Lots of magic sections in same file miss this, > but thats not an example to follwow. > I added this series to tip:x86/iommu, but please do provide an incremental patch with a comment. Thanks, -hpa