On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:02:53PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:48:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked > > as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the > > data > > elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local > > only data and remotely accessed data cleanly. > > > > --- > > a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~define-new-percpu-interface-for-shared-data-version-4 > > +++ a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > > @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ SECTIONS > > . = ALIGN(4096); > > __per_cpu_start = .; > > *(.data.percpu) > > + *(.data.percpu.shared_aligned) > > __per_cpu_end = .; > > #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL > > __init_begin = _stext; > > Why is PERCPU not suitable for arm?
You can't put an output section inside an output section. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
