linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW

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Message-ID: <20070617023010.GD6832@Krystal>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:30:10 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures

* Sam Ravnborg (sam@...nborg.org) wrote:
> Hi Mathieu.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:30:00PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > EXTRARW_DATA adds a place to declare rw data that will not be mixed with the
> > .data content; therefore limiting data cache pollution when data is put in
> > the EXTRARW_DATA sections.
> 
> I would suggest to embed this inside DATA_DATA in vmlinux.lds.h
> That seems reasonsable to do instead of adding it right after DATA_DATA
> for all archs.
> 
Yes, it will be in my next release,

> From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
> powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
> you could fix that.
> 
> 	Sam

Done.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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