linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page

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Date:	Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:49 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....EDU>,
	Waseem Daher <wdaher@....EDU>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....EDU>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned.

Tim Abbott wrote:
> .data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section.  So, as
> part of this cleanup I moved it into the .data output section in the
> linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the
> section name.

"Should not need" is one thing, but personally I find that it enhances
debuggability to not merge input sections with different attributes too
much.  They still get merged into single segments.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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