Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:44:15 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Defines the linker marcro EXTRA_RWDATA for marker data section. It > puts the marker data in a separate section that will not pollute the > normal .data section, which minimize the cache impact. Markers need such > a special section because they define a lot of spreaded and small data > structures at multiple sites. > > This patch also creates the __markers_strings section (ro marker > strings) and makes sure the __markers section is aligned by putting it > before the __ksymtab_strings (not after).
What's this marker stuff about?
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