From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:45:27 +0200
> Please move kmem_cache_t *bind_bucket_cachep; in a better place, not > just after spinlock_t portalloc_lock; [ Eric, I haven't had time to respond to this thread because I'm in the UK for UKUUG2005 this week, so email access is sporadic] Please use __read_mostly attribute to achieve this. The linker can otherwise arrange the data section symbols however it likes, and therefore placing it in some specific spot in some C file makes no guarentees where it'll end up in the final image. Section attributes, such as __read_mostly, are the only way to make guarentees about symbol placement. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html