[PATCH 0/8] section name cleanup for powerpc

From: Tim Abbott
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 20:11:27 EST


This patch series cleans up the section names on the powerpc
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 (8):
powerpc: Remove unused __page_aligned macro.
powerpc: share .data output section definition between 32 and 64
bits.
powerpc: Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
powerpc: use NOSAVE_DATA macro for .data.nosave section.
powerpc: use new macro for .data.cacheline_aligned section.
powerpc: use new macros for .data.init_task.
powerpc: use new macro for .data.read_mostly section.
powerpc: convert to new generic read_mostly support.

arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h | 4 --
arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h | 8 ----
arch/powerpc/kernel/init_task.c | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 47 ++++++--------------------
9 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

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