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Message-ID: <473B45C4.5030501@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:00:20 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Immediate Values x86 Optimization Declare Discarded Instruction
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> nitpicking :
>
>> .section __discard,"a",@progbits
>
> could we simply declare a
>
> .section __discard,"",@progbits instead ?
>
> I think this should remove the need to tweak the linker script, since
> the section would not be allocated.
>
The allocation flag is a loader property, not a linker property. It
would still be manifest in the vmlinux file; I think this is
undesirable. Perhaps not a big deal, but neither is adding a /DISCARD/
statement to the linker script:
/DISCARD/ : { *(__discard) }
-hpa
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