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From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] powerpc: avoid generating .eh_frame sections with
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:40:34AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> x86 has a specific ".section .eh_frame,"a",@progbits" in vdso32/int80.S as one example.
> 
> Have you analyzed all these hits?
> 

These aren't effected by the patch. All the occurances of it inside the
kernel are explicitly written for the vdso/vsyscall functionality (which
needs it, since it's mapped into a userspace task, and you obviously
might be running a debugger on it.) The other hit in x86_64 is just a
discard section of the linker script.

regards, Kyle