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DateWed, 30 Jul 2008 16:58:50 -0700
FromGreg KH <>
Subject[patch 28/62] vmlinux.lds: move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section
2.6.26 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
us know.

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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
commit fb5e2b379732e1a6ea32392980bb42e0212db842 upstream

Due to the addition of __attribute__((__cold__)) to a few symbols
without adjusting the linker scripts, those symbols currently may end
up outside the [_stext,_etext) range, as they get placed in
.text.unlikely by (at least) gcc 4.3.0. This may confuse code not only
outside of the kernel, symbol_put_addr()'s BUG() could also trigger.
Hence we need to add .text.unlikely (and for future uses of
__attribute__((__hot__)) also .text.hot) to the TEXT_TEXT() macro.

Issue observed by Lukas Lipavsky.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Lipavsky <llipavsky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@
  * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map */
 #define TEXT_TEXT							\
 		ALIGN_FUNCTION();					\
+		*(.text.hot)						\
 		*(.text)						\
 		*(.ref.text)						\
 		*(.text.init.refok)					\
@@ -213,7 +214,8 @@
 	CPU_KEEP(init.text)						\
 	CPU_KEEP(exit.text)						\
 	MEM_KEEP(init.text)						\
-	MEM_KEEP(exit.text)
+	MEM_KEEP(exit.text)						\
+		*(.text.unlikely)
 
 
 /* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same
-- 


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