Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Re-positioning the bss segment

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:03:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
 > 
> > o This patch moves the bss at the end hence reducing the size of
> >   bzImage by 896 bytes and size of vmlinux.bin by 600K.
> > 
> > o This change benefits in the context of relocatable kernel patches. If
> >   kernel bss is not part of compressed data (vmlinux.bin) then it does
> >   not have to be decompressed and this area can be used by the decompressor
> >   for its execution hence keeping the memory requirements bounded and 
> >   decompressor code does not stomp over any other data loaded beyond
> >   kernel image (As might be the case with bootloaders like kexec).
> 
> Merged thanks. 
> 
> Does i386 need a similar change?
If it does then I suggest moving the BSS definition to
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

	Sam
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