Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Use macros for .data.page_aligned.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tim Abbott wrote:
> .data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section.  So, as
> part of this cleanup I moved it into the .data output section in the
> linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the
> section name.

"Should not need" is one thing, but personally I find that it enhances
debuggability to not merge input sections with different attributes too
much.  They still get merged into single segments.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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