Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263987AbUDOOO2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:14:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264079AbUDOOO1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:14:27 -0400 Received: from everest.2mbit.com ([24.123.221.2]:59281 "EHLO mail.sosdg.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263987AbUDOOOZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <407E98BB.5070502@greatcn.org> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:14:19 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Organization: GreatCN.org & The Summit Open Source Develoment Group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh-cn, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Gerst CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <406ECAE7.1020407@quark.didntduck.org> In-Reply-To: <406ECAE7.1020407@quark.didntduck.org> X-Scan-Signature: 5e46532232fd70c4de6004b73fafcbb3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.123.221.2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: coywolf@greatcn.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] more i386 head.S cleanups Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.0 (built Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:56:42 -0500) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 26 Brian Gerst wrote: > - Move empty_zero_page and swapper_pg_dir to BSS. This requires that > BSS is cleared earlier, but reclaims over 3k that was lost due to page > alignment. > - Move stack_start, ready, and int_msg, boot_gdt_descr, idt_descr, and > cpu_gdt_descr to .data. They were interfering with disassembly while in > .text. > Interesting, two years ago in 2002, you sent a patch basically of the same idea. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/0850.html -- Coywolf Qi Hunt Admin of http://GreatCN.org and http://LoveCN.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/