Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic

[Russell King]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Defines the linker marcro EXTRA_RWDATA for marker data section. It
> puts the marker data in a separate section that will not pollute the
> normal .data section, which minimize the cache impact. Markers need such
> a special section because they define a lot of spreaded and small data
> structures at multiple sites.
> 
> This patch also creates the __markers_strings section (ro marker
> strings) and makes sure the __markers section is aligned by putting it
> before the __ksymtab_strings (not after).

What's this marker stuff about?

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Russell King
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