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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html