Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Also problematical with XIP - if we go down the route of implementing > > these by copying code fragments into the kernel, we need to strip out > > XIP support or implement a second way. Obviously having a second way > > adds maintainence burden, and the second way will probably lose out > > on updates. > > How about if we implement the default XIP-safe unoptimized functions, > with minimal iffdeffery and then allow optional override for non-XIP > kernels from mm/proc-*.S files?
That might be a plan for some things like cache maintenance - skip a function call when not needed, call direct instead of indirect, but for XIP that status quo must remain. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
