Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:08:43 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 2/4] Basic reorder infrastructure |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:31 +0100, sam@ravnborg.org wrote: > > > This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of > > > functions based inside the vmlinux. > > > > Can we make this general instead of x86_64 only? > > Then we can use Kconfig to enable it for the architectures where we want it. > > Actually Linus had pretty good arguments to make this per-architecture: > the list will be different on each architecture. > > (eg my first patch had it more generic; but Linus asked it to be per > arch, and I agree with the reasons he gave) The list should be per. architecture for - but I just wanted the rest to be shared since I assume this will soon be adopted by others. But on the other hand the rest is very few lines so it is not crucial.
> > Also I doubt it can be enabled "blindly" for all architectures; I expect > more to need hacks similar to the x86_64 entry.S fix before it can > work... Which is why utilising Kconfig to enable it would make sense.
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