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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090609192239.GF7181@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EA719.2000608@zytor.com>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:16:57AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>
> >>> Why do we need *(.data .data.*) rather than *(.data*)?
> >>> *(.dynbss*)?
> >> I don't have any strong opinion here, but the former is exactly what the
> >> default linker script has.
> > 
> > My general take on this is that we should know and deal with what the linker produces.
> > So if we only expect .data then .data.* could go into .broken so we catch it. 
> > 
> 
> That will break if we change to per-function sections.

But adding it to .broken would catch this at first build which would
have told us so.
We shall try to make it -ffunction-sections compatible in first try though.

	Sam

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 14:05 Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 15:25 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 16:27   ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-05 16:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09  7:32       ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 20:07   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09  7:26     ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09  7:52       ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-09  7:57         ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09  8:09           ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-09  8:29             ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09 15:41         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 18:11       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09 18:16         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 19:22           ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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