Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.
authorTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:16 +0000 (10:36 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:16:21 +0000 (17:16 -0700)
commit1b2086227cd1a24f748398c22ea9652c383499cf
treee8c7a010d4900b9bd591d93cdf176c5e8f4237a2
parente9ea0e2d1d00959b451dfc239df126d3c6a22043
Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.

The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.

This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
pack them essentially optimally.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h