On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Dave P. Martin wrote: > SMP_ON_UP fixups lead to vmlinux link errors if those sections are > discarded at link-time. In particular this may happen for built-in > __exit stuff. > > This patch modifies the vmlinux linker script to reduce the amount > of discarded sections, and tries to make sure that __exit sections > are kept in. > > This is a hack and probably wrong! Further discussion is needed. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@xxxxxxxxxx> Since discarded sections are by definition not used, we should at least put them into the .init section so to discard them at run time. And only the EXIT_TEXT and EXIT_DATA would need to be kept (see x86 for example). Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
