Re: [PATCH 2/4] build: Alloc space for sched list in the link file

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 17/12/2015 20:59, Jonathan Creekmore wrote:
> Creates a section to contain scheduler entry pointers that are gathered
> together into an array. This will allow, in a follow-on patch, scheduler
> entries to be automatically gathered together into the array for
> automatic parsing.
>
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>
> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Creekmore <jonathan.creekmore@gmail.com>
> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S | 4 ++++
>  xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> index 0488f37..39a4c86 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> @@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ SECTIONS
>         . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>         *(.data.page_aligned)
>         *(.data)
> +       . = ALIGN(8);
> +       __schedulers_start = .;
> +       *(.data.schedulers)
> +       __schedulers_end = .;

These arrays are only ever used in __init scheduler_init().  They should
be in .init.data rather than .data, which allows their memory to be
reclaimed after boot.

With that, Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>