Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:41, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:39 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable
> > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
> > This patch fixes parisc architecture.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
> 
> Um ... if you look at the Makefile you'll see we already build parisc
> with -ffunction-sections; we have to: our relative jumps are too small
> to guarantee finding the stubs in large files.
> 
> Since our text is -ffunction-sections compatible already, I question the
> need for transformations like this:
> 
> > -               *(.text.do_softirq)
> > -               *(.text.sys_exit)
> > -               *(.text.do_sigaltstack)
> > -               *(.text.do_fork)
> > +               *(.do_softirq.text)
> > +               *(.sys_exit.text)
> > +               *(.do_sigaltstack.text)
> > +               *(.do_fork.text)

arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S contains these lines:

               TEXT_TEXT
               SCHED_TEXT
               LOCK_TEXT
               *(.text.do_softirq)
               *(.text.sys_exit)
               *(.text.do_sigaltstack)
               *(.text.do_fork)

which suggested to me that for parisc it is important to have
these sections in that place (after LOCK_TEXT) and order.

If you use -ffunction-sections, any function with the name
do_fork (say, a static function somewhere) will end up in
.text.do_fork function, and will be "mixed up" with
global do_fork(). For parisc it is maybe not a problem
(I am not an expert) but in other places/arches people
clearly would not want this kind of things to happen.

In order to handle these situations uniformly, in these patches
I decided to _never_ use .text.XXXX names for sections,
effectively leaving them "reserved for gcc's use".

Did I understand you right that in this chunk I need to
leave .text.FUNC_NAME as it was before?

> And thus by the same token the data transformations.

It would be easiest for me if you will reply to the parisc patch
and indicate all parts where I should NOT do name change.

Thanks!
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vda