linux-kernel - Re: history of extratext sections?

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Message-ID: <4721FC6B.8010006@freescale.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:43 -0500
From:	Jon Loeliger <jdl@...escale.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>, paulus@...ba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: history of extratext sections?

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 05:57 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
>> Is this section still used on PPC, or can the entire support for
>> extratext be removed?
> 
> I think it can die.
> 

Agreed.   For history, see this:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html

where Arnd says:

> The users of the ppc64 function in_kernel_text() can probably be converted
> to the generic is_kernel_text() function.
> 
> 	Arnd <><

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html

Where Paul said:

>> And I assume that the obvious mappings can take place (ie, that
>> "pmac.text" can just be placed in regular .text, etc), right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Paul.

HTH,
jdl

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