[PATCH 0/4] section name cleanup for alpha

From: Tim Abbott
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 19:03:48 EST


This patch series cleans up the section names on the alpha
architecture. It requires the architecture-independent macro
definitions from this patch series:

<http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg33499.html>

The long-term goal here is to add support for building the kernel with
-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all the
magic section names in the kernel of the form .text.foo, .data.foo,
.bss.foo, and .rodata.foo to not have collisions with sections
generated for code like:

static int nosave = 0; /* -fdata-sections places in .data.nosave */
static void head(); /* -ffunction-sections places in .text.head */

Note that these patches have not been boot-tested (aside from testing
the analogous changes on x86), since I don't have access to the
appropriate hardware.

-Tim Abbott

Tim Abbott (4):
alpha: Use macros for .data.page_aligned.
alpha: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section.
alpha: make THREAD_SIZE available to assembly files.
alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread

arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++--
arch/alpha/kernel/init_task.c | 5 ++---
arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 19 ++++---------------
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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