linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] m68knommu: Move __init

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Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:22:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] m68knommu: Move __init_end out of the .init
 section.

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> Took a look at this trying to understand why this
> caused a non-booting system.

Thanks, I really appreciate your looking at this!

[...]
> I think the better solution is to use the same section name
> several times like this:
> 
> 	.init : {
>               . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>               __init_end = .;
>       } > INIT
> 
> We should do this both for begin and end.
> Then the linker will not fool us and try to rearrange stuff.
> And we do not end up with zero sized sections.

OK, I have an attempt at implementing this idea.  Of course, the final 
patch which uses INIT_TEXT_SECTION and INIT_DATA_SECTION has multiple 
output sections (.init.data and .init.text), but I think perhaps including 
these alignment guards in the adjacent section might work.

	-Tim Abbott

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