Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

Roland McGrath
2009-08-20T23:24:20Z

> At some time, GCC may start a new .text section at the beginning of
> each function. We do this on hpux but not linux. This will cause
> multiple .text sections to be present in an object and allow finer grained
> stub placement.

arch/parisc/Makefile:

# Without this, "ld -r" results in .text sections that are too big
# (> 0x40000) for branches to reach stubs.
ifndef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
cflags-y += -ffunction-sections
endif