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

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

[Denys Vlasenko]

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>
--
vda


--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S	Wed Jul  2 00:45:45 2008
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 ENDPROC(stext)
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
-	.section .data.read_mostly
+	.section .read_mostly.data
 
 	.align	4
 	.export	$global$,data
--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/init_task.c	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/init_task.c	Wed Jul  2 00:46:55 2008
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
  * "init_task" linker map entry..
  */
 union thread_union init_thread_union
-	__attribute__((aligned(128))) __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
+	__attribute__((aligned(128))) __attribute__((__section__(".init_task.data"))) =
 		{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
 
 #if PT_NLEVELS == 3
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@
  * guarantee that global objects will be laid out in memory in the same order 
  * as the order of declaration, so put these in different sections and use
  * the linker script to order them. */
-pmd_t pmd0[PTRS_PER_PMD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pmd"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pmd_t pmd0[PTRS_PER_PMD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pmd.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
 #endif
 
-pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pgd"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
-pte_t pg0[PT_INITIAL * PTRS_PER_PTE] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pte"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pgd.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pte_t pg0[PT_INITIAL * PTRS_PER_PTE] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pte.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
 
 /*
  * Initial task structure.
--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Wed Jul  2 01:02:35 2008
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@
 		TEXT_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT
-		*(.text.do_softirq)
-		*(.text.sys_exit)
-		*(.text.do_sigaltstack)
-		*(.text.do_fork)
+		*(.do_softirq.text)
+		*(.sys_exit.text)
+		*(.do_sigaltstack.text)
+		*(.do_fork.text)
 		*(.text.*)
 		*(.fixup)
 		*(.lock.text)		/* out-of-line lock text */
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@
 
 	/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
 	. = ALIGN(16);
-	.data.read_mostly : {
-		*(.data.read_mostly)
+	.read_mostly.data : {
+		*(.read_mostly.data)
 	}
 
 	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@
 	}
 
 	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
-	.data.cacheline_aligned : {
-		*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
+	.cacheline_aligned.data : {
+		*(.cacheline_aligned.data)
 	}
 
 	/* PA-RISC locks requires 16-byte alignment */
 	. = ALIGN(16);
-	.data.lock_aligned : {
-		*(.data.lock_aligned)
+	.lock_aligned.data : {
+		*(.lock_aligned.data)
 	}
 
 	/* nosave data is really only used for software suspend...it's here
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__nosave_begin = .;
 	.data_nosave : {
-		*(.data.nosave)
+		*(.nosave.data)
 	}
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__nosave_end = .;
@@ -135,10 +135,10 @@
 	__bss_start = .;
 	/* page table entries need to be PAGE_SIZE aligned */
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
-	.data.vmpages : {
-		*(.data.vm0.pmd)
-		*(.data.vm0.pgd)
-		*(.data.vm0.pte)
+	.data.vmpages : { /* TODO: rename .vmpages.data? */
+		*(.vm0.pmd.data)
+		*(.vm0.pgd.data)
+		*(.vm0.pte.data)
 	}
 	.bss : {
 		*(.bss)
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@
 	/* assembler code expects init_task to be 16k aligned */
 	. = ALIGN(16384);
 	/* init_task */
-	.data.init_task : {
-		*(.data.init_task)
+	.init_task.data : {
+		*(.init_task.data)
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
--- 0.org/include/asm-parisc/cache.h	Wed Jul  2 00:40:50 2008
+++ 1.fixname/include/asm-parisc/cache.h	Wed Jul  2 00:45:45 2008
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES
 
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".read_mostly.data")))
 
 void parisc_cache_init(void);	/* initializes cache-flushing */
 void disable_sr_hashing_asm(int); /* low level support for above */
--- 0.org/include/asm-parisc/system.h	Wed Jul  2 00:40:50 2008
+++ 1.fixname/include/asm-parisc/system.h	Wed Jul  2 00:46:14 2008
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 })
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-# define __lock_aligned __attribute__((__section__(".data.lock_aligned")))
+# define __lock_aligned __attribute__((__section__(".lock_aligned.data")))
 #endif
 
 #define arch_align_stack(x) (x)

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

[James Bottomley]

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)

And thus by the same token the data transformations.

James

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

[Denys Vlasenko]

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!
--
vda

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

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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.

Yes ... moderately.

> 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.

Erm, but we're trying to name text sections of the -ffunction-sections.
We're doing this because we are trying to do a semblance of a reasonable
arrangement for the relative jumps (and avoid stubs).  Your patch is
explicitly breaking all of this.

> 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".

We need to use the names gcc outputs, not some random name.

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

Yes.

> > 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.

That would be the piece above.

James

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

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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:

We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time,
too.

> 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".

It makes a certain amount of sense to do this uniformly for all
architectures -- leaving .text.* and .data.* for GCC, and using
something else whenever we manually name sections. 

Denys' patch for parisc would need a little more thought, but it's
probably worth it to be consistent. Especially if we can move more stuff
out of athe arch-specific linker scripts and into
<asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>

-- 
dwmw2

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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time,
> too.
>...

Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel?

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

-- 

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:55 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > 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:
> > 
> > We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time,
> > too.
> >...
> 
> Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel?

Isn't it? I thought it was.

Or maybe we were only doing that before we added MMU support. I remember
the exception tables complicate matters a little.

-- 
dwmw2

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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:57:42PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:55 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > 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:
> > > 
> > > We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time,
> > > too.
> > >...
> > 
> > Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel?
> 
> Isn't it? I thought it was.
>...

It is in the Makefile, but only enabled through a nonexisting 
CONFIG_GC_SECTIONS option.

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

-- 

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc

[Denys Vlasenko]

The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable
with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
This patch fixes parisc architecture.

Updated version - does not try to rename sections
which really are expected to be produced by gcc - .text.sys_exit etc.

James please ACK/NAK.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
--
vda


--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S	Wed Jul  2 00:45:45 2008
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 ENDPROC(stext)
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
-	.section .data.read_mostly
+	.section .read_mostly.data
 
 	.align	4
 	.export	$global$,data
--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/init_task.c	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/init_task.c	Wed Jul  2 00:46:55 2008
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
  * "init_task" linker map entry..
  */
 union thread_union init_thread_union
-	__attribute__((aligned(128))) __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
+	__attribute__((aligned(128))) __attribute__((__section__(".init_task.data"))) =
 		{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
 
 #if PT_NLEVELS == 3
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@
  * guarantee that global objects will be laid out in memory in the same order 
  * as the order of declaration, so put these in different sections and use
  * the linker script to order them. */
-pmd_t pmd0[PTRS_PER_PMD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pmd"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pmd_t pmd0[PTRS_PER_PMD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pmd.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
 #endif
 
-pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pgd"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
-pte_t pg0[PT_INITIAL * PTRS_PER_PTE] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".data.vm0.pte"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pgd.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
+pte_t pg0[PT_INITIAL * PTRS_PER_PTE] __attribute__ ((__section__ (".vm0.pte.data"), aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));
 
 /*
  * Initial task structure.
--- 0.org/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Wed Jul  2 00:40:41 2008
+++ 1.fixname/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Wed Jul  2 01:02:35 2008
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@
 
 	/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
 	. = ALIGN(16);
-	.data.read_mostly : {
-		*(.data.read_mostly)
+	.read_mostly.data : {
+		*(.read_mostly.data)
 	}
 
 	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@
 	}
 
 	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
-	.data.cacheline_aligned : {
-		*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
+	.cacheline_aligned.data : {
+		*(.cacheline_aligned.data)
 	}
 
 	/* PA-RISC locks requires 16-byte alignment */
 	. = ALIGN(16);
-	.data.lock_aligned : {
-		*(.data.lock_aligned)
+	.lock_aligned.data : {
+		*(.lock_aligned.data)
 	}
 
 	/* nosave data is really only used for software suspend...it's here
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__nosave_begin = .;
 	.data_nosave : {
-		*(.data.nosave)
+		*(.nosave.data)
 	}
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__nosave_end = .;
@@ -135,10 +135,10 @@
 	__bss_start = .;
 	/* page table entries need to be PAGE_SIZE aligned */
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
-	.data.vmpages : {
-		*(.data.vm0.pmd)
-		*(.data.vm0.pgd)
-		*(.data.vm0.pte)
+	.data.vmpages : { /* TODO: rename .vmpages.data? */
+		*(.vm0.pmd.data)
+		*(.vm0.pgd.data)
+		*(.vm0.pte.data)
 	}
 	.bss : {
 		*(.bss)
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@
 	/* assembler code expects init_task to be 16k aligned */
 	. = ALIGN(16384);
 	/* init_task */
-	.data.init_task : {
-		*(.data.init_task)
+	.init_task.data : {
+		*(.init_task.data)
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
--- 0.org/include/asm-parisc/cache.h	Wed Jul  2 00:40:50 2008
+++ 1.fixname/include/asm-parisc/cache.h	Wed Jul  2 00:45:45 2008
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES
 
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".read_mostly.data")))
 
 void parisc_cache_init(void);	/* initializes cache-flushing */
 void disable_sr_hashing_asm(int); /* low level support for above */
--- 0.org/include/asm-parisc/system.h	Wed Jul  2 00:40:50 2008
+++ 1.fixname/include/asm-parisc/system.h	Wed Jul  2 00:46:14 2008
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 })
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-# define __lock_aligned __attribute__((__section__(".data.lock_aligned")))
+# define __lock_aligned __attribute__((__section__(".lock_aligned.data")))
 #endif
 
 #define arch_align_stack(x) (x)

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

[James Bottomley]

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 17:46 +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.
> 
> Updated version - does not try to rename sections
> which really are expected to be produced by gcc - .text.sys_exit etc.

Actually, I've thought about it some more and I don't think your
approach is quite right.  The way gcc works with -ffunction-sections
makes it clear that it expects the section namespace to be scoped left
to right. However, by using *.text and *.data, your patch is following a
reverse convention (putting your most global name to the right).  This
is setting us up for a clash with future global section names that our
toolchain might emit in future.

Since we have to have special handling for your reversed sections in
every vmlinux.lds, what about introducing our own namespace instead?  So
we reserve the global section specifier linux and then make everything a
namespace under this.  So our constructed text and data sections become

linux.text.*

and

linux.data.*

That way we could only ever get a clash if the toolchain decided to use
a section global name linux (which we can beat them up over).

James