On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:07:59AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The MIPS swapper_pg_dir needs 64K alignment for faster TLB refills in > kernel mappings. There are two parts to the patch set: > > 1) Modify generic vmlinux.lds.h to allow architectures to place > additional sections at the start of .bss. This allows alignment > constraints to be met with minimal holes added for padding. > Putting this in common code should reduce the risk of future > changes to the linker scripts not being propagated to MIPS (or any > other architecture that needs something like this). > > 2) Align the MIPS swapper_pg_dir. > > Since the initial use of the code is for MIPS, perhaps both parts > could be merged by Ralf's tree (after collecting any Acked-bys). Looks good to me but will wait a bit longer for comments and (N)Acks before merging. Ralf
