linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:12:02 +0200
From:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

Sam Ravnborg píše v Pá 12. 06. 2009 v 20:06 +0200:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:40:32PM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> > The handling of various sections in the VDSO linker script
> > looks pretty haphazard. This patch series cleans it up in
> > these regards:
> > 
> >  - improve the coding style
> >  - remove superfluous sections
> >  - issue a linker error if a section is encountered which
> >    is known not to work
> >  - check that the .got section is empty, except for the
> >    three entries defined by the ABI
> >  - discard sections which are not useful to user-space
> > 
> > Petr Tesarik (8):
> >   x86: Adjust the coding style of vdso-layout.lds.S
> >   x86: Remove .sdata from the vDSO linker script
> >   x86: add .broken section to the vDSO linker script
> >   x86: mark altinstr-related sections in vDSO as broken
> >   x86: mark some standard sections as broken in a vDSO
> >   x86: check the size of GOT in vDSO
> >   x86: remove unneeded section from the vDSO
> The above looks good.
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>

What shall I do? Since Roland has some good ideas for improvement,
should I post a new patch series (v3), or should I add on top of the
acked one?

Petr Tesarik


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