Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 16:48:58 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] section name cleanup for mn10300 |
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On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:35:19PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > > This patch series cleans up the section names on the mn10300 > > architecture. It requires the architecture-independent macro > > definitions from this patch series: > > Interesting... Whilst it compiles and links with no problems, this cleanup > has the following detrimental effects: > > None of these patches applied > > text data bss dec hex filename > 1879329 82980 321772 2284081 22da31 vmlinux > > All of these patches applied: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 1879329 87076 321772 2288177 22ea31 vmlinux > > Somewhere it eats an extra page.
This is likely due to moving around the sections and we have got them in less perfect order.
I also thing 5/6 is wrong as it moves init_task befoe _edata.
Could you try to back out them one by one to see which one causes the extra memory waste.
Sam
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