Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Tim Abbott <> | | Subject | [PATCH 0/4] section name cleanup for alpha | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:00:12 -0400 |
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This patch series cleans up the section names on the alpha 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 (4): alpha: Use macros for .data.page_aligned. alpha: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section. alpha: make THREAD_SIZE available to assembly files. alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread
arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++-- arch/alpha/kernel/init_task.c | 5 ++--- arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 19 ++++--------------- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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