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Message-ID: <4A7360C3.2060507@twiddle.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:23:15 -0700
From: Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>,
Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>,
linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread.
On 07/31/2009 01:56 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
> - /* Note 2 page alignment above. */
> - .data.init_thread : {
> - *(.data.init_thread)
> - }
NACK.
You can change the section name, sure, but you cannot remove the 2 page
alignment that we had via the alignment at the end of the init sections.
You'll break current_thread_info which is always computed as
(kernel-stack-pointer & -(2*PAGE_SIZE)).
Similarly it is *not* a bug that the page_aligned sections were before
data, because we already knew we had 2 page alignment from the end of
init + 2 pages of init_thread.
r~
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