Re: history of extratext sections?

[Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 05:57 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> > Is this section still used on PPC, or can the entire support for
> > extratext be removed?
>
> I think it can die.

Agreed.   For history, see this:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html

where Arnd says:

> The users of the ppc64 function in_kernel_text() can probably be converted
> to the generic is_kernel_text() function.
>
> 	Arnd <><

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html

Where Paul said:

> > And I assume that the obvious mappings can take place (ie, that
> > "pmac.text" can just be placed in regular .text, etc), right?
>
> Yes.
>
> Paul.

HTH,
jdl

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