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SubjectRe: [PATCH] move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 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.
>
> Cc: Lukas Lipavsky <llipavsky@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

Applied.

Sam


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