From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
wbrana@gmail.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][bugzilla #8679] therm_throt.c: Fix section mismatch
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:08:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820220847.014d30ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070820220328.438e8a4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:03:28 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> register_hotcpu_notifier() is cunning. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y, we need
> the notifier block and the function to which it points to be in .data and
> in .text. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, we don't need them to be present at all.
>
> So what we can do is to just leave the notifier block in .data and the
> function in .text and then the compiler/linker will notice that nothing
> references them and they will be omitted at build time.
As long as the notifier block and the function are static. I don't think
the toolchain is smart enough to remove them if they have global scope,
but I didn't check this..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 4:37 [PATCH][bugzilla #8679] therm_throt.c: Fix section mismatch Satyam Sharma
2007-08-21 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-21 5:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-22 21:00 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-22 21:58 ` Satyam Sharma
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