Re: [patch 1/5] Use EXTRARW_DATA in architectures

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 17:54:42 EST


Hi Mathieu.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:30:00PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> EXTRARW_DATA adds a place to declare rw data that will not be mixed with the
> .data content; therefore limiting data cache pollution when data is put in
> the EXTRARW_DATA sections.

I would suggest to embed this inside DATA_DATA in vmlinux.lds.h
That seems reasonsable to do instead of adding it right after DATA_DATA
for all archs.

>From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
you could fix that.

Sam
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