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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with
	-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:41:00 -0500
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To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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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.
>=20
> 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 th=
e
need for transformations like this:

> =EF=BB=BF-               *(.text.do_softirq)
> -               *(.text.sys_exit)
> -               *(.text.do_sigaltstack)
> -               *(.text.do_fork)
> +               *(.do_softirq.text)
> +               *(.sys_exit.text)
> +               *(.do_sigaltstack.text)
> +               *(.do_fork.text)

And thus by the same token the data transformations.

James