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Message-Id: <20090623154022.61e83c33.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:22 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] asm/sections: add text/data checking functions for
arches to override
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:22:21 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org> wrote:
> Some ports (like the Blackfin arch) have a discontiguous memory map which
> means there may be text or data that falls outside of the standard range
> of the start/end text/data symbols. Creating some helper functions allows
> these non-standard ports to declare these regions without adversely
> affecting anyone else.
>
The patches look OK to me.
I assumed they're for 2.6.32.
> index 4ce48e8..ee19462 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
> @@ -20,4 +20,20 @@ extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];
> #define dereference_function_descriptor(p) (p)
> #endif
>
> +/* random extra sections (if any). Override
> + * in asm/sections.h */
> +#ifndef arch_is_kernel_text
> +static inline int arch_is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef arch_is_kernel_data
> +static inline int arch_is_kernel_data(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
I suppose that for completeness and consistency etc really we should have
#define arch_is_kernel_text arch_is_kernel_text
#define arch_is_kernel_data arch_is_kernel_data
in here.
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