From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753720AbZHDEVE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:21:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751450AbZHDEVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:21:03 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38473 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750797AbZHDEVC (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:21:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090803.212110.104970698.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, joerg.roedel@amd.com, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, reif@earthlink.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] sparc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h and pci-dma-compat.h From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090803055441.GA19428@elte.hu> References: <20090718110620.GC27287@elte.hu> <20090802.202135.63875488.davem@davemloft.net> <20090803055441.GA19428@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:54:41 +0200 > So that it can be freed. It's also placed next to the regular init > section to not create too many holes. It also keeps the 'kernel text > area' continuous and things like core_kernel_text() & co still work > fine. Ok, I'll look into doing similar on sparc.