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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] section name cleanup for parisc
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:55:14PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> This patch series cleans up the section names on the parisc
> 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 (5):
> parisc: use NOSAVE_DATA macro for .data.nosave section.
> parisc: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section.
> parisc: use new macros for .data.init_task.
> parisc: use new macro for .data.read_mostly section.
> parisc: convert to new generic read_mostly support.
>

Not sure what the easiest way to merge these will be... I'll apply them
to a section-cleanup branch in the parisc git tree until the
architecture independent portions are upstream.

regards, Kyle


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