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Eric Dumazet 4c4915627f x86: make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use a separate
While examining vmlinux namelist on i386 (nm -v vmlinux) I noticed :

c01021d0 t es7000_rename_gsi
c010221a T es7000_start_cpu
<Big Hole>
c0103000 T thread_saved_pc

and

c0113218 T acpi_restore_state_mem
c0113219 T acpi_save_state_mem
<Big Hole>
c0114000 t wakeup_code

This is because arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S forces a .text alignment
of 4096 bytes. (I have no idea if it is really needed, since
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S uses a 16 bytes alignment *only*)

So arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o also has this alignment

arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o:     file format elf32-i386

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00018c94  00000000  00000000  00001000  2**12
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE

But as arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.o is not the first object linked
into arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o, linker had to build several holes to meet
alignement requirements, because of .o nestings in the kbuild process.

This can be solved by using a special section, .text.page_aligned, so that
no holes are needed.

# size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4619942  422838  458752 5501532  53f25c vmlinux.before
4610534  422838  458752 5492124  53cd9c vmlinux.after

This saves 9408 bytes

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:32:50 +01:00
..
alpha remove __attribute_used__ 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
arm spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
avr32 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
blackfin all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
cris all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
frv Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
h8300 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
ia64 spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
m32r spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
m68k all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
m68knommu all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
mips spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
parisc spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
powerpc spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25 2008-01-29 22:54:01 +11:00
s390 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sh all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc64 spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
um UML: remove remaining FASTCALL uses 2008-01-30 13:31:14 +01:00
v850 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
x86 x86: make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use a separate 2008-01-30 13:32:50 +01:00
xtensa Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
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