On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:17:24PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > > > It increases the stack pressure a lot (more than 2500 bytes) but
> > > > at this stage in the boot process, it shouldn't matter.
> > >
> > > Even more for 64-bit kernel - and I would really like to keep reduce
> > > the kernel stack for 64-bit kernels, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER 2 is already
> > > slightly painful when memory becomes fragmented.
> >
> > I think the right fix is to implement "__initbss" along the lines of
> > "__initdata".
Or e.g. static struct label labels[128] __initdata = { 0, };
Cfr. the old rule `always initialize initdata, even if it must be 0'.
> Indeed. Doesn't even look so hard and would likely generally be welcome.
That's a valid alternative, of course...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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