Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753835AbZFPKMP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:12:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751422AbZFPKMB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:12:01 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42468 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbZFPKMA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:12:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S From: Petr Tesarik To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Roland McGrath In-Reply-To: <20090612180626.GB18203@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1244814040-5810-1-git-send-email-ptesarik@suse.cz> <20090612180626.GB18203@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: SUSE LINUX Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:12:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1245147122.17481.205.camel@nathan.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1462 Lines: 37 Sam Ravnborg píše v Pá 12. 06. 2009 v 20:06 +0200: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:40:32PM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote: > > The handling of various sections in the VDSO linker script > > looks pretty haphazard. This patch series cleans it up in > > these regards: > > > > - improve the coding style > > - remove superfluous sections > > - issue a linker error if a section is encountered which > > is known not to work > > - check that the .got section is empty, except for the > > three entries defined by the ABI > > - discard sections which are not useful to user-space > > > > Petr Tesarik (8): > > x86: Adjust the coding style of vdso-layout.lds.S > > x86: Remove .sdata from the vDSO linker script > > x86: add .broken section to the vDSO linker script > > x86: mark altinstr-related sections in vDSO as broken > > x86: mark some standard sections as broken in a vDSO > > x86: check the size of GOT in vDSO > > x86: remove unneeded section from the vDSO > The above looks good. > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg What shall I do? Since Roland has some good ideas for improvement, should I post a new patch series (v3), or should I add on top of the acked one? Petr Tesarik -- 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/