Re: [PATCH] Allow compilation with -ffunction-sections

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> If you compile the kernel with -ffunction-sections, each function gets
> put in a section .text.function_name.  This collides with our current use
> of .text.init.  So here's a patch which converts x86 to use .init.text
> instead.
> 
> I've tested it on x86 and it still frees 120k of ram, so it seems to work.
> Other architectures will need to change their vmlinux.lds appropriately,
> and may need other changes (arm, m68k seem to use .text.init verbatim).

Just in case anybody feels bored, maybe someone wants to come up with a
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.S (or a better name) which has the common 
part of all the arch's vmlinux.lds.S - so we could make such changes like
you're proposing at one place in the future.

Since all vmlinux.lds.S get preprocessed by the C preprocessor, putting
an "#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.S>" in there should be easy enough 
instead of all the current duplication.

--Kai