On 06/10/2016 05:54 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday, May 20, 2016 5:16:36 PM CEST Jason Baron wrote:
>> Although dynamic debug is often only used for debug builds, sometimes its
>> enabled for production builds as well. Minimize its impact by using jump
>> labels. This reduces the text section by 7000+ bytes in the kernel image
>> below. It does increase data, but this should only be referenced when
>> changing the direction of the branches, and hence usually not in cache.
>>
>>    text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 8194852      4879776  925696 14000324         d5a0c4 vmlinux.pre
>> 8187337      4960224  925696 14073257         d6bda9 vmlinux.post
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
>> ---
> 
> This causes problems for some of my randconfig builds, when a dynamic
> debug call is used inside of an __exit function:
> 
> `.exit.text' referenced in section `__jump_table' of drivers/built-in.o: 
> defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> `.exit.text' referenced in section `__jump_table' of drivers/built-in.o: 
> defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> 
>       Arnd
> 

Hi,

I stuck pr_debug() in a few functions marked with __exit, but did not
reproduce yet. Can you share your .config and gcc --version.

Thanks,

-Jason

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