Re: history of extratext sections?

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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