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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	uclinux-dist-devel <uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Subject: Re: scripts/kallsyms: extending region checking for Blackfin memory regions
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:44:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090614204437.GC3187@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0906081623h4dc26492kd70c2e07091730d@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:23:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> intro: the current Blackfin memory architecture is (1) no virtualized
> memory and (2) distinctly harvard.  that means we cannot create a
> linear map of start/end text sections.  we end up with distinct
> regions like so:
> 00001000 T __stext
> 000dc4c0 T __etext
> feb00000 A __etext_l2
> feb00010 A __stext_l2
> ffa00000 T __stext_l1
> ffa0160c T __etext_l1
> this is because external memory starts at address 0 while on-chip
> regions have different discontiguous hardcoded addresses (L1
> instruction in this case starts at 0xffa00000 while L2 starts at
> 0xfeb00000).
> 
> the current kallsyms is written to search for the special stext/etext
> symbols only which means the resulting kallsyms output knows nothing
> of the Blackfin symbols living in these on-chip regions.  we've
> written two patches to fix this: the first one is straight forward and
> simply copies & pastes the existing hardcoded regions.  the second
> creates an array of text regions which makes it much easier to extend
> in the future for other people (and can be squashed into the first
> one).
> 
> doesnt matter to me which method is picked :)

I added both as I liked the generalization.
I had to rearrange the "Signed-off-by" in the first patch
as this patch came in vai you and not Robin.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 23:23 Mike Frysinger
2009-06-14 20:44 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-06-15  1:59   ` Robin Getz
2009-06-15  2:05     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-15  4:37       ` [kbuild-devel] " Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-15  4:39         ` Mike Frysinger

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