Re: [PATCH][RFC] Move some kernel globals from asm file to C file.

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:38:59AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> 801ce000 B fw_arg3
> 801ce004 B fw_arg1
> 801cf000 B swapper_pg_dir
> 801d0000 B invalid_pte_table
> 801d1000 B fw_arg2
> 801d1008 B kernelsp
> 801d1010 B fw_arg0
> 801d1018 B pgd_current
> 801d1020 A __bss_stop
> 801d1020 A _end
> 
> It looks less efficient while fw_arg[0-3] are all 4 byte.
> 
> Is there any point on declaring those symbols in asm file?  If
> nothing, how about moving them to C file?  And I can not see why
> kernel_sp and pgd_current have 8-byte size even on 32-bit kernel.
> 
> Here is a proposal patch.  Comments?

Looks ok but I think all the pagetable stuff should move to somewhere
like arch/mips/mm/init.c.

  Ralf