On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:11:21PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:10:52PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > That's what threading is for. 8) > > What's what's threading is for? > > > > I think for ARM, we can simply do -DINITDATA=const, yes? > > > > No, unless you want to make this const: > > > > -static u8 window[0x8000]; /* use a statically allocated window */ > > +static u8 INITDATA window[0x8000]; /* use a statically allocated window */ > > Ok, that bit can just be dropped. It needn't be INITDATA anyway, as it > now gets kmalloc'ed for users in the kernel proper. Anything else?
I didn't notice anything else, but it will need testing on ARM in this configuration. Basically, for the decompressor to work in this mode, we have to ensure: 1. no static data 2. no initialised non-const data gets placed into the decompressor. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
