On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:19:53AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > 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. I expect the parisc stuff to be redone. I'm working at the arch independent stuff atm and will post a new patch later this weekend. That will make the current patch obsolete. Sam -- 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
