Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:07:50 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux |
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:47:00PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:43, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > These patches fix section names and add > > CONFIG_DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS. It is not enabled > > unconditionally because only newest binutils have > > ld --gc-sections which is stable enough for kernel use. > > IOW: this is an experimental feature for now. > > Part 1: fix section names over entire source (all arches). > > Patch is big and boring global s/.text.lock/.text_lock/ > type thing.
The normal naming scheme seems to be: .<usage>.text so in your example it would be: .lock.text See the naming og init and exit sections (that was renamed during 2.5 to be compatible with -ffunction-sections).
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