linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack

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Date:	Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:35:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
To:	Hirokazu Takata <takata@...ux-m32r.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack_top into
 .data section.

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Hirokazu Takata wrote:

> From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 5/6] m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack_top into .data section.
> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:12:58 -0400
> > Since these get squashed into the .data output section by the m32r
> > linker script, it seems likely that they don't need their own input
> > sections.
> > 
> > I'd like an explicit confirmation from Hirokazu Takata that this is
> > correct (in particular, that there isn't some hidden reason why there
> > two structures need to be at the start of the .data output section).
> 
> There is no apparent reason.  We've placed them at the start of .data
> section, because they are for initial stack region.
> 
> I think it would be better that we place them to .init.data section.
> Any comment?

Assuming that they aren't used after the initial boot process, that's 
probably the right choice.

	-Tim Abbott
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