On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of
.bss.page_aligned and .data.page_aligned in the kernel with
macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having
to touch a lot of the kernel.
The long-term goal
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA.section .data.page_aligned, aw,
@progbits
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS .section .bss.page_aligned, aw, @nobits
It is my understanding that the linker
Tim Abbott wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA.section .data.page_aligned, aw,
@progbits
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS .section .bss.page_aligned, aw, @nobits
It is my understanding
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:33:13AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Tim Abbott wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA .section .data.page_aligned, aw,
@progbits
+#define
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:33:13AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Tim Abbott wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
+#define __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA .section .data.page_aligned, aw,
@progbits
+#define
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:18:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:33:13AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Tim Abbott wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:54:08PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
+#define
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
What's wrong with @?
arm does not support it :-(
I recall it denote a comment in arm assembler.
I could do some magic to detect the ARM case but I'm reluctant to do so.
I could also ignore the arm issue for now as it is not used by arm,
but that strikes me as the wrong
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes:
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
What's wrong with @?
arm does not support it :-(
I recall it denote a comment in arm assembler.
I could do some magic to detect the ARM case but I'm reluctant to do so.
I could also ignore the arm issue for now as it is not used
This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of
.bss.page_aligned and .data.page_aligned in the kernel with
macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having
to touch a lot of the kernel.
The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic
section names to
