linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement

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Message-ID: <55D5C02D.5060707@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:55:25 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement

On 2015-07-20 03:01, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> When building a kernel with .text.unlikely text the unlikely text for
> each translation unit was put next to the main .text code in the
> final vmlinux.
> 
> The problem is that the linker doesn't allow more specific submatches
> of a section name in a different linker script statement after the
> main match.
> 
> So we need to move them all into one line. With that change
> .text.unlikely is at the end of everything again.
> 
> I also moved .text.hot into the same statement though, even though
> that's not strictly needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

Applied to kbuild.git#kbuild.

Michal

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