From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: kai@germaschewski.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905200750.GA30812@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709051447.00774.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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).
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 13:43 [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 13:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 18:40 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 20:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-06 10:55 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-06 22:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-10 12:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-10 19:02 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-10 19:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-11 11:23 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-11 11:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-05 20:07 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-09-06 10:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-06 22:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-08 15:02 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Oleg Verych
2007-09-05 18:46 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 20:34 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-05 21:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-06 10:55 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-06 11:40 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-06 12:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-06 20:43 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-06 20:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-06 21:16 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-06 21:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-06 22:01 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-06 22:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-06 12:33 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 16:29 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-05 18:37 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 18:38 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-05 19:14 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 19:07 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-05 19:49 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-05 19:46 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-06 10:57 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-06 15:13 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-06 17:07 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-07 16:31 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-07 17:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-07 17:19 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-07 17:30 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-07 17:38 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-05 19:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-05 19:24 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-05 19:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-05 19:27 ` Adrian Bunk
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