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SubjectRe: [PATCH] more i386 head.S cleanups
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Followup to:  <406ECAE7.1020407@quark.didntduck.org>
By author: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> - Move empty_zero_page and swapper_pg_dir to BSS. This requires that
> BSS is cleared earlier, but reclaims over 3k that was lost due to page
> alignment.
> - Move stack_start, ready, and int_msg, boot_gdt_descr, idt_descr, and
> cpu_gdt_descr to .data. They were interfering with disassembly while in
> .text.
>

Some of them should be in .rodata instead of .data.

.data should only be used for modifiable numbers.

All in all these patches are a good idea; I had the same thoughts when
I was doing the changes to the boot page tables, but didn't want to
change too much at once.

-hpa
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