Messages in this thread | | | From | Denys Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:59:41 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 21:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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).
Thanks, will do it that way. I plan to re-submit patches for inclusion into 2.6.24. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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