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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:55:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070615215534.GB11267@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615203550.044690775@polymtl.ca>

Hi Mathieu.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:30:00PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> EXTRARW_DATA adds a place to declare rw data that will not be mixed with the
> .data content; therefore limiting data cache pollution when data is put in
> the EXTRARW_DATA sections.

I would suggest to embed this inside DATA_DATA in vmlinux.lds.h
That seems reasonsable to do instead of adding it right after DATA_DATA
for all archs.

>From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
you could fix that.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15 20:29 [patch 0/5] Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 21:55   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-06-17  2:28     ` [PATCH] Use DATA_DATA in cris Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17  2:29     ` [PATCH] Add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17  2:29     ` [PATCH] Use DATA_DATA in xtensa Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-17  2:30     ` [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 2/5] Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independent code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 3/5] Linux Kernel Markers - Add kconfig menus for the marker code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 4/5] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-15 20:30 ` [patch 5/5] Port of blktrace to the Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers

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