* [PATCH] support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts
@ 2010-07-23 6:02 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2010-07-23 6:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers, Linux Kernel Mailing List,
Stephen Rothwell
gcc 4.4.4 will complain if you use a .discard section for both text and
data ("causes a section type conflict"). Add support for ".discard.*"
sections, and use .discard.text for a dummy function in the x86
RESERVE_BRK() macro.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
index 86b1506..ef292c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void *extend_brk(size_t size, size_t align);
* executable.)
*/
#define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz) \
- static void __section(.discard) __used \
+ static void __section(.discard.text) __used \
__brk_reservation_fn_##name##__(void) { \
asm volatile ( \
".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits;" \
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 48c5299..ae6b88e 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@
EXIT_DATA \
EXIT_CALL \
*(.discard) \
+ *(.discard.*) \
}
/**
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