Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.

[David Howells]

Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of
> ".bss.page_aligned" and ".data.page_aligned" in the kernel with
> macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having
> to touch a lot of the kernel.
> 
> The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic
> section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections
> -fdata-sections.  This requires renaming all magic sections with names
> of the form ".data.foo".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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