[PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: vmlinux.lds.S: align the exception fixup table to a 4-byte boundary

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:18:47PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> > The exception fixup table is currently aligned to a 32-byte boundary.
> > Whilst this won't cause any problems, the exception_table_entry
> > structures contain only a pair of unsigned longs, so 4-byte alignment
> > is all that is required.
> 
> If the table was also walked from start to end, that could also be an 
> argument for aligning it to a cache line so the first access always 
> fetches a whole cache line worth of usable data.  But the access is done 
> through a binary search which is totally random as far as access pattern 
> goes.  That would be worth mentioning in the commit log.

Good point, I'll add that to the message.

> With that:
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>

Thanks Nicolas!

Will