[PATCH v2 8/9] ARM: Thumb-2: Fix long-distance conditional branches in head.S for Thumb-2.

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 22 18:44:27 EST 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:24:11PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > No, you're not thinking right.  It was _intentional_ that __error_p
> > ended up in a different section to __init.  With CPU hotplug, as it
> > is called from the hotplug CPU initialization path, it needs to be
> > available for that path to call.
> 
> Well... agreed for the hotplug CPU case.  The section selection is good 
> as it is for that.
> 
> However I doubt this was intentional when commit 75d90832d5 was created, 
> which is when the actual section move took place.

Well, T2 is not something I particularly test for.  There's already too
many combinations to test as it is.



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