From: Jan Beulich Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:36:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: vmlinux.lds: move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb5e2b379732e1a6ea32392980bb42e0212db842;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git vmlinux.lds: move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section Due to the addition of __attribute__((__cold__)) to a few symbols without adjusting the linker scripts, those symbols currently may end up outside the [_stext,_etext) range, as they get placed in .text.unlikely by (at least) gcc 4.3.0. This may confuse code not only outside of the kernel, symbol_put_addr()'s BUG() could also trigger. Hence we need to add .text.unlikely (and for future uses of __attribute__((__hot__)) also .text.hot) to the TEXT_TEXT() macro. Issue observed by Lukas Lipavsky. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Tested-by: Lukas Lipavsky Cc: Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 729f6b0a60e9..bd2be5fd1276 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map */ #define TEXT_TEXT \ ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \ + *(.text.hot) \ *(.text) \ *(.ref.text) \ *(.text.init.refok) \ @@ -230,7 +231,8 @@ CPU_KEEP(init.text) \ CPU_KEEP(exit.text) \ MEM_KEEP(init.text) \ - MEM_KEEP(exit.text) + MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \ + *(.text.unlikely) /* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same