Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: linker script: avoid ALIGN statementsinside output sections

[Ingo Molnar]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > Below is hpa's fix merged up by me on top of your cleanups. That 
> > merge-up is incomplete as we lose these fixlets.
> > 
> > And in this form it's visible how we lose those cleanups you did - 
> > which werent really cleanups ... Please keep such side-effects apart 
> > from truly mechanic cleanups, whenever possible - it makes life 
> > really simpler.
> 
> The cleanup that you applied did NOT move any ALIGN() - or
> at least not on purpose.
> It was supposed to be a noop from a functionality point of view.

yeah - indeed - i mis-interpreted your statement.

> I have started to unify the the two vmlinux.lds files for
> 32 and 64 bit - and as part of that serie (yet to be published) you will
> see individual commits where ALING() is moved and secitons
> are reordered etc.
> I do this in baby steps so we can track regressions using bisect.
> 
> The work is done on top of x86/kbuild and I will rebase as needed 
> when I have it ready.

Cool :)

	Ingo
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