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From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	kernel-team@android.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] srcu: Remove unused vmlinux srcu linker entries
Date: Sun,  7 Apr 2019 20:42:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408004217.176946-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> (raw)

The SRCU for modules optimization introduced vmlinux linker entries
which is unused since it applies only to the built-in vmlinux. So remove
it to prevent any space usage due to the 8 byte alignment it added.

Tested with SRCU torture_type and rcutorture. Put prints in module
loader to confirm it is able to find and initialize the srcu structures.

Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index c2d919a1566e..f8f6f04c4453 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -338,10 +338,6 @@
 		KEEP(*(__tracepoints_ptrs)) /* Tracepoints: pointer array */ \
 		__stop___tracepoints_ptrs = .;				\
 		*(__tracepoints_strings)/* Tracepoints: strings */	\
-		. = ALIGN(8);						\
-		__start___srcu_struct = .;				\
-		*(___srcu_struct_ptrs)					\
-		__end___srcu_struct = .;				\
 	}								\
 									\
 	.rodata1          : AT(ADDR(.rodata1) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
-- 
2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog

             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-08  0:42 Joel Fernandes (Google) [this message]
2019-04-08  0:42 ` [PATCH] srcu: Remove unused vmlinux srcu linker entries Joel Fernandes (Google)

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