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 of init and exit sections (that was renamed
> during 2.5 to be compatible with -ffunction-sections).
Well, there seems to be a problem at least with .bss:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5006
With __attribute__((section(".bss.page_aligned")))
gcc will produce .bss.page_aligned section
with NOBITS attribute, purely on the basis
of section name starting by '.bss.'
With __attribute__((section(".bss_page_aligned"))),
section will get PROGBITS attribute instead.
Combining NOBITS and PROGBITS sections into one .bss
section is not funny.
IOW: at least for bss, we _must_ use ".bss.xxx" names.
I propose (and will implement in next round of patches)
.bss.k.page_aligned ('k' for 'kernel').
Lickily, we alctually have only one special bss section
on kernel today.
Sam, my question - should I also do the same for text/rodata/data,
just for paranoid reasons?
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