On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:22:16AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > Unfortunately marking jiffies and similar small but high usage > variables as section .sbss or .sdata requires changes to common code. > It might be worth doing, but the change would have to be structured so > it worked on all architectures.
I think there are other architectures which would prefer small-and-frequently-used global variables to be placed somewhere special, so there may well be wide-spread enthusiasm for such an annotation. CC'ing linux-kernel to see if anyone bites. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain - 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/
