Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-06T11:00:10Z

On Wednesday 05 September 2007 21:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:47:00PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:43, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > These patches fix section names and add
> > > CONFIG_DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS. It is not enabled
> > > unconditionally because only newest binutils have
> > > ld --gc-sections which is stable enough for kernel use.
> > > IOW: this is an experimental feature for now.
> >
> > Part 1: fix section names over entire source (all arches).
> >
> > Patch is big and boring global s/.text.lock/.text_lock/
> > type thing.
>
> The normal naming scheme seems to be:
> .<usage>.text so in your example it would be: .lock.text
> See the naming og init and exit sections (that was renamed
> during 2.5 to be compatible with -ffunction-sections).

Thanks, will do it that way. I plan to re-submit patches for inclusion
into 2.6.24.
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