linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init

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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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