hash table

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 18:56, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Here's a first shot at my rework of __hash_page, if you want
> to have a quick look... It did a few tests but didn't really
> stress the box that badly, so there may be bugs in there.
>
> .../...

And we also want that patch (which can be included in ameslab
asap I suppose). It fixes the .got to be right before the .toc
so that @got accesses done from assembly work properly. According
to Alan Modra, the old stuff with .got in data segment was bogus.

Ben.


===== arch/ppc64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 1.18 vs edited =====
--- 1.18/arch/ppc64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Fri Sep 12 21:01:40 2003
+++ edited/arch/ppc64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Mon Dec  8 19:04:13 2003
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
     *(.data1)
     *(.sdata)
     *(.sdata2)
-    *(.got.plt) *(.got)
     *(.dynamic)
     CONSTRUCTORS
   }
@@ -126,6 +125,7 @@
   /* freed after init ends here */

   __toc_start = .;
+  .got : { *(.got.plt) *(.got) }
   .toc : { *(.toc) }
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   __toc_end = .;


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