Re: [PATCH] arm64: add PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA to linker script

From: Mark Salter
Date: Fri Nov 01 2013 - 11:01:40 EST


On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 08:18 -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:14 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ SECTIONS
> > > */
> > > INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE)
> > > NOSAVE_DATA
> > > + PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
> > > CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(64)
> > > READ_MOSTLY_DATA(64)
> >
> > Can we just replace this chunk with RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE,
> > THREAD_SIZE) instead?
> >
>
> I took a look at this. It can be done, but the RW_DATA_SECTION aligns
> data to PAGE_SIZE where the existing alignment is THREAD_SIZE. So using
> RW_DATA_SECTION would waste some space if using 64K pagesize.
>
> --Mark

So where do we stand with this one?


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