Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:33:19 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add __discard section to x86 |
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Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Add a __discard sectionto the linker script. Code produced in this section will > not be put in the vmlinux file. This is useful when we have to calculate the > size of an instruction before actually declaring it (for alignment purposes for > instance). This is used by the immediate values. > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> > CC: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> > CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> > CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> > CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> > CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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