Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757833AbZFZLp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752885AbZFZLpQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:45:16 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42661 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751670AbZFZLpP (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:45:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S From: Petr Tesarik To: LKML Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Roland McGrath In-Reply-To: <1245156929-30395-1-git-send-email-ptesarik@suse.cz> References: <1245156929-30395-1-git-send-email-ptesarik@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: SUSE LINUX Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1246016715.6239.1.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: 1591 Lines: 40 Petr Tesarik píše v Út 16. 06. 2009 v 14:55 +0200: > 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 (9): > 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: move 32-bit vDSO padding from .data to .rodata > x86: mark writable vDSO sections as broken > x86: check the size of GOT in vDSO > x86: remove .gnu.warning* sections from the vDSO > > arch/x86/vdso/Makefile | 5 +- > arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S | 2 +- > arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/syscall.S | 2 +- > 4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) Any plans with this patchset? Is it waiting for somebody's Ack? 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/