On Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:27:39 PM CEST Alan Modra wrote: > > If it can, then Nicholas' patch should be: > > *(.text.hot .text.hot.*) *(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*) *(.text .text.*) > > If you can't put .text.fixup too far away then you may as well just use > > *(.text .text.*) I tried this version: diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index b1f8828e9eac..fc210dacac9a 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -438,7 +438,9 @@ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map */ #define TEXT_TEXT \ ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \ - *(.text.hot .text .text.fixup .text.unlikely .text.*) \ + *(.text.hot .text.hot.*) \ + *(.text.unlikely .text.fixup .text.unlikely.*) \ + *(.text .text.*) \ *(.ref.text) \ MEM_KEEP(init.text) \ MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \ but that failed to link an allyesconfig kernel because of references from .fixup to .text.*. Trying your version now: *(.text.hot .text.hot.*) *(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*) *(.text .text.*) Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html