On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 08:18 -0400, Mark Salter wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:14 +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > > @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ SECTIONS > > > */ > > > INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE) > > > NOSAVE_DATA > > > + PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) > > > CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(64) > > > READ_MOSTLY_DATA(64) > > > > Can we just replace this chunk with RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE, > > THREAD_SIZE) instead? > > > > I took a look at this. It can be done, but the RW_DATA_SECTION aligns > data to PAGE_SIZE where the existing alignment is THREAD_SIZE. So using > RW_DATA_SECTION would waste some space if using 64K pagesize. > > --Mark
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