Re: [PATCH 0/2] Align MIPS swapper_pg_dir for faster code.

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:07:59AM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The MIPS swapper_pg_dir needs 64K alignment for faster TLB refills in
> kernel mappings.  There are two parts to the patch set:
> 
> 1) Modify generic vmlinux.lds.h to allow architectures to place
>    additional sections at the start of .bss.  This allows alignment
>    constraints to be met with minimal holes added for padding.
>    Putting this in common code should reduce the risk of future
>    changes to the linker scripts not being propagated to MIPS (or any
>    other architecture that needs something like this).
> 
> 2) Align the MIPS swapper_pg_dir.
> 
> Since the initial use of the code is for MIPS, perhaps both parts
> could be merged by Ralf's tree (after collecting any Acked-bys).

Looks good to me but will wait a bit longer for comments and (N)Acks
before merging.

  Ralf
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