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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: monstr@monstr.eu
Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
	microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au,
	Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] FLAT: split the stack & data  alignments
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:30:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinD5VI-piiv6CWnZMei4ARTLDF61r0O7wvddRDP@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFE2C3E.5090704@monstr.eu>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:24, Michal Simek wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> The stack and data have different alignment requirements, so don't force
>> them to wear the same shoe.  Increase the data alignment to match that
>> which the elf2flt linker script has always been using: 0x20 bytes.  Not
>> only does this bring the kernel loader in line with the toolchain, but
>> it also fixes a swath of gcc tests which try to force larger alignment
>> values but randomly fail when the FLAT loader fails to deliver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>
> Solve the problem on Microblaze:
>
> Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
>
> Who will add it to mainline?

if we can get the misc nommu peeps to agree on this (looking mostly at
David [McCullough] and Greg), then akpm will most likely expedite the
merge.  i like to think they're the best FLAT experts out there ;).
-mike

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-25 19:24 [PATCH] FLAT: allow arches to declare a larger alignment than the slab Mike Frysinger
2010-05-25 19:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-05-25 21:07 ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-25 23:17   ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-26  2:23     ` Jie Zhang
2010-05-26  6:59       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-05-26  7:23         ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-26  7:33           ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-26  7:36             ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-26  7:36       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-26  7:48     ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-26  8:01       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-26  7:24 ` Michal Simek
2010-05-26  8:45 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] FLAT: split the stack & data alignments Mike Frysinger
2010-05-27  8:24   ` Michal Simek
2010-05-27 18:30     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-05-27 23:15       ` [microblaze-uclinux] Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] " David McCullough
2010-05-28  4:57         ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-28  6:05   ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-28  6:23   ` David McCullough
2010-05-28  6:40   ` Greg Ungerer
2010-05-26  8:45 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] FLAT: tweak default stack alignment Mike Frysinger
2010-05-28  6:24   ` David McCullough
2010-05-28  6:39   ` Greg Ungerer
2010-06-06  7:12   ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Frysinger

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