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Message-Id: <200709061159.41133.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:59:41 +0100 From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Cc: kai@...maschewski.name, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux 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@...r.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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