Re: [PATCH 2/7] linker script: throw away .discard section

[Tejun Heo]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:37, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
>> .discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
>> and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
>> variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
> 
> seems like a good time to introduce a common DISCARD define to
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.  considering multiple /DISCARD/
> entries are allowed in a linker script, the define should be pretty
> straightforward:
> #define DISCARDS \
>     /DISCARD/ : { \
>         EXIT_TEXT \
>         EXIT_DATA \
>         *(.exitcall.exit) \
>         *(.discard) \
>     }

Hmmm... indeed, that would be nice.  I'll update the patch.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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