Gcc may compile sd_major() using a jump table which it will put into
.rodata. If also inline sd_major's function body into exit_sd() and
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD has been set to y ld is going to discard exit_sd's
code later at link time. It won't discard the jump table if was put
into another section than .exit.data and so the remaining refernces
to sd_major's function body will result in about 100 lines of non-fatal
linker error messages. This is avoided by marking sd_major noinline.
Observed on MIPS with GCC 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 but not 3.4.5 and seems
possible on other architectures such as i386.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 9d98723..bee2d0d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -158,6 +158,14 @@ static struct scsi_driver sd_template =
* for major1, ...
* As we stay compatible with our numbering scheme, we can reuse
* the well-know SCSI majors 8, 65--71, 136--143.
+ *
+ * Gcc may compile sd_major() using a jump table which it will put into
+ * .rodata. If also inline sd_major's function body into exit_sd() and
+ * CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD has been set to y ld is going to discard exit_sd's
+ * code later at link time. It won't discard the jump table if was put
+ * into another section than .exit.data and so the remaining refernces to
+ * sd_major's function body will result in about 100 lines of non-fatal
+ * linker error messages. This is avoided by marking sd_major noinline.
*/
static int sd_major(int major_idx)
{
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