On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Defines the linker marcro EXTRA_RWDATA for marker data section. It > puts the marker data in a separate section that will not pollute the > normal .data section, which minimize the cache impact. Markers need such > a special section because they define a lot of spreaded and small data > structures at multiple sites. > > This patch also creates the __markers_strings section (ro marker > strings) and makes sure the __markers section is aligned by putting it > before the __ksymtab_strings (not after).
What's this marker stuff about? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
