linux-kernel - Re: Testing of function/data-sections on linux-2.6.35-rc4

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Message-Id: <201007260329.09913.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:29:09 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Testing of function/data-sections on linux-2.6.35-rc4

On Friday 23 July 2010 22:24, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > * fix for kernel linker stripts: linux-2.6.35-rc4-fs.fix-kernel-linker-scripts.patch
> >   It makes _all_ linker scripts -ffunction/data-sections safe via:
> >   -       *(.data)
> >   +       *(.data .data.*)
> >   
> 
> This patch touches both the regular kernel linker scripts and the
> boot linker scripts.
> I would strongly prefer a split so you touched the boot linker
> scripts in a separate patch.

No problem.

> In addition the patch handles more sections than
> documented: rodata, bss, text.

Yes, that was assumed.

> The patch introduce the following syntax for input sections:
> 
>     *(.bss .bss.*)
>
> Where the kernel linker script would have one input
> section per line.
> Can we stick to the "layout" used in the kernel linker scripts?

Sure.


> The patch in addition in several places changes linker
> scripts that already uses the two-lines layout to a single line approach.
> These "fixes" should be omitted.

Reverted.

> Why do we need *(.bss .bss.*)?
> Does -fdata-sections introduce special .bss sectiosn too?

Yes, it does.

Please take a look at attached updated patches.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
-- 
vda


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