Re: [PATCH 05/05] percpu i386 linker script update

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 23:23 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:19:33PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Add .data.percpu_offset section into arch/i386
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.17-rc1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-04-14 15:43:49.000000000 -0400
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-04-14 15:58:08.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ SECTIONS
> >    /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
> >    . = ALIGN(32);
> >    .data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.read_mostly) }
> > +  __per_cpu_offset_start = .;
> > +  .data.percpu_offset  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu_offset) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.percpu_offset) }
> > +  __per_cpu_offset_end = .;
> >    _edata = .;			/* End of data section */
> >  
> >    . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);	/* init_task */
> 
> Can we please have this definition in:
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> 
> At least it looks to make sense for other arch's than just i386.
> 
> Something like
> #define PERCPU_OFFSET \
> ...

Sounds good, thanks!

-- Steve


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