Re: [PATCH 5/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: blackfin

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

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 00:58, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable
> > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
> > This patch fixes blackfin architecture.
> 
> the comment right above what you changed says it already works for
> Blackfin.  so you arent fixing it at all.
> >                /* This gets done first, so the glob doesn't suck it in */
> >                . = ALIGN(32);
> > -               *(.data.cacheline_aligned)
> > +               *(.cacheline_aligned.data)

This may pull in an unrelated data object named "cacheline_aligned"
(say, a static variable in a driver). If that variable is not
itself aligned to the cacheline size, it will mess up alignment of all
objects in .data.cacheline_aligned which follow. Not good.

To be safe from such weird and hard to debug problems
it's better to not use names like .data.XXXX at all.
I just uniformly renamed al such "special sections"
in the kernel to .XXXXX.data
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