linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
To:	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>,
	Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: use .data.init_task instead of
 .data.init_thread.

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On 07/31/2009 01:56 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > -	/* Note 2 page alignment above.  */
> > -	.data.init_thread : {
> > -		*(.data.init_thread)
> > -	}
> 
> NACK.
> 
> You can change the section name, sure, but you cannot remove the 2 page
> alignment that we had via the alignment at the end of the init sections.
> You'll break current_thread_info which is always computed as
> (kernel-stack-pointer & -(2*PAGE_SIZE)).

The INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE) macro call aligns to THREAD_SIZE (= 
2*PAGE_SIZE).  So I'm not removing the 2 page alignment; I'm just moving 
it along with the code that needs to be aligned.

This change:

-	. = ALIGN(2 * PAGE_SIZE);
+	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__init_end = .;

removes the now-unnecessary (2 * PAGE_SIZE) alignment for __init_end 
caused by moving .data.init_task (it should have been in the first patch).

	-Tim Abbott
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