Re: [PATCH 05/15] arm: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.

[Russell King]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:46:21PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > > -	.text.head : {
> > > +	HEAD_TEXT_SECTION : {
> > 
> > Spell it out direct rather than hiding the .head.text
> > behind a macro name here.
> 
> Does .head.text actually need its own output section here?  I notice that 
> only the linker scripts for arm, x86, and ia64 have an output section for 
> .head.text; the rest just place it at the start of the .text or .init.text 
> output section.  It would be great if we could eliminate these extra 
> references to .head.text by doing the same thing here.

It could be merged with the .init section.  IOW, it becomes:

        .init : {                       /* Init code and data           */
                _stext = .;
                _sinittext = .;
                *(.text.head)
                        INIT_TEXT
                _einittext = .;
                __proc_info_begin = .;
                        *(.proc.info.init)
                __proc_info_end = .;
...

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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