Re: [Patch 2/4] Basic reorder infrastructure

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:31 +0100, sam@ravnborg.org wrote:
> > > This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
> > > functions based inside the vmlinux.
> > 
> > Can we make this general instead of x86_64 only?
> > Then we can use Kconfig to enable it for the architectures where we want it.
> 
> Actually Linus had pretty good arguments to make this per-architecture:
> the list will be different on each architecture.
> 
> (eg my first patch had it more generic; but Linus asked it to be per
> arch, and I agree with the reasons he gave)
The list should be per. architecture for - but I just wanted the rest to
be shared since I assume this will soon be adopted by others.
But on the other hand the rest is very few lines so it is not crucial.

> 
> Also I doubt it can be enabled "blindly" for all architectures; I expect
> more to need hacks similar to the x86_64 entry.S fix before it can
> work...
Which is why utilising Kconfig to enable it would make sense.

	Sam
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