Re: [RFC] Add __initbss section

[Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> 
>> and the kernel image is bigger after the patch is applied !
>>
>> $ ls -l vmlinux*
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 fbuihuu fbuihuu 2503324 2007-10-11 11:41 vmlinux*
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 fbuihuu fbuihuu 2503264 2007-10-11 11:41 vmlinux~old*
>>
>> Could anybody explain me why ? The time is missing and I probably
>> couldn't investigate into this until this weekend. 
> 
>  I guess for a bss-type section you want to use something like:
> 
>       .section .init.bss,"aw",@nobits
> 

Sorry but I'm missing your point here. This indeed should be added
for assembler code but I don't see how it's related with the kernel
image size difference I was seeing.

> 
>  Well, there should be no need for an extra segment -- just rearrange the 
> order of the sections in the linker script appropriately.  You should 
> probably add __exitbss for consistency too.  You can make all the three 
> sections adjacent so that no separate initialisation is required.
> 

I'll do that.

                Franck