On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, David Howells wrote: > Out of interest, does using LTO also fix the problem? With those patches in place, that would be the next thing to try. Reducing our reliance on 'ld -r' will greatly help promoting LTO for the kernel. Personally I'd like to have the choice between LTO and -gc-sections at configure time. They both have advantages of their own. Nicolas -- 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