[PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script

[PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script

[Alan Jenkins]

Commit 023bf6f "linker script: unify usage of discard definition"
changed the linker scripts for all architectures except for ARM.
I can find no discussion about this exception, so here are the changes
for ARM.

These changes are exactly parallel to the ia64 case.

"ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
 subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
 image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion."

Not boot-tested.  In build testing, the modified linker script generated
an identical vmlinux file.


[I would like to be able to rely on this unified discard definition.
 I want to sort the kernel symbol tables to allow faster symbol
 resolution during module loading. The simplest way appears to be
 to generate sorted versions from vmlinux.o, link them in to vmlinux,
 _and discard the original unsorted tables_.

 This work is driven by my x86 netbook, but it is implemented at a
 generic level. It is possible it will benefit some ARM systems also.]


Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index aecf87d..ec511d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
 	}
 
-	/DISCARD/ : {			/* Exit code and data		*/
-		EXIT_TEXT
-		EXIT_DATA
-		*(.exitcall.exit)
-		*(.discard)
+	/*
+	 * unwind exit sections must be discarded before the rest of the
+	 * unwind sections get included.
+	 */
+	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
 		*(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
 #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -271,6 +271,9 @@ SECTIONS
 	.stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) }
 	.stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }
 	.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
+
+	/* Default discards */
+	DISCARDS
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.6.3.2

[PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script

[Alan Jenkins]

I selfishly request an Acked-by for the following. My aim is to submit it as
part of a larger series ("module: Speed up symbol resolution during module
loading") which would not go through the ARM tree.

------------------------------------------------------------------->

[PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script

[Tejun Heo]

Alan Jenkins wrote:
> I selfishly request an Acked-by for the following. My aim is to submit it as
> part of a larger series ("module: Speed up symbol resolution during module
> loading") which would not go through the ARM tree.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------->
> From 52c4a00b22fecf3ecb352618356bb61f7f4b261b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:08:34 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script
> 
> Commit 023bf6f "linker script: unify usage of discard definition"
> changed the linker scripts for all architectures except for ARM.
> I can find no discussion about this exception, so here are the changes
> for ARM.
> 
> These changes are exactly parallel to the ia64 case.
> 
> "ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
>  subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
>  image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion."
> 
> Not boot-tested.  In build testing, the modified linker script generated
> an identical vmlinux file.
> 
> 
> [I would like to be able to rely on this unified discard definition.
>  I want to sort the kernel symbol tables to allow faster symbol
>  resolution during module loading. The simplest way appears to be
>  to generate sorted versions from vmlinux.o, link them in to vmlinux,
>  _and discard the original unsorted tables_.
> 
>  This work is driven by my x86 netbook, but it is implemented at a
>  generic level. It is possible it will benefit some ARM systems also.]
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Most likely omission by simple mistake.  The change looks fine to me
but I don't have any arm machine to test it.

Acked-by-without-testing: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

-- 
tejun

[PATCH] arm: use unified discard definition in linker script

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> I selfishly request an Acked-by for the following. My aim is to submit it as
> part of a larger series ("module: Speed up symbol resolution during module
> loading") which would not go through the ARM tree.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>