Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758873AbZFISRw (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754123AbZFISRp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:17:45 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49341 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753817AbZFISRo (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:17:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2EA719.2000608@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Petr Tesarik , LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S References: <1243865115.24278.8.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <1244215559.1604.12.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <20090605200701.GB23195@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1244532418.5199.24.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <20090609181157.GA7181@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20090609181157.GA7181@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 19 Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >>> Why do we need *(.data .data.*) rather than *(.data*)? >>> *(.dynbss*)? >> I don't have any strong opinion here, but the former is exactly what the >> default linker script has. > > My general take on this is that we should know and deal with what the linker produces. > So if we only expect .data then .data.* could go into .broken so we catch it. > That will break if we change to per-function sections. -hpa -- 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/