linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:15 +0200
From:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	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 v3 0/9] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

Petr Tesarik píše v Út 16. 06. 2009 v 14:55 +0200:
> 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 (9):
>   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: move 32-bit vDSO padding from .data to .rodata
>   x86: mark writable vDSO sections as broken
>   x86: check the size of GOT in vDSO
>   x86: remove .gnu.warning* sections from the vDSO
> 
>  arch/x86/vdso/Makefile          |    5 +-
>  arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S |  158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S    |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/syscall.S  |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

Any plans with this patchset? Is it waiting for somebody's Ack?

Petr Tesarik


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