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Message-ID: <4A01B8A5.9030902@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:49 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....EDU>,
Waseem Daher <wdaher@....EDU>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....EDU>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned.
Tim Abbott wrote:
> .data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section. So, as
> part of this cleanup I moved it into the .data output section in the
> linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the
> section name.
"Should not need" is one thing, but personally I find that it enhances
debuggability to not merge input sections with different attributes too
much. They still get merged into single segments.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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