Re: [PATCH] Add __discard section to x86
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Add a __discard sectionto the linker script. Code produced in this section will not be put in the vmlinux file. This is useful when we have to calculate the size of an instruction before actually declaring it (for alignment purposes for instance). This is used by the immediate values. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] Add __discard section to x86
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Add a __discard sectionto the linker script. Code produced in this section will not be put in the vmlinux file. This is useful when we have to calculate the size of an instruction before actually declaring it (for alignment purposes for instance). This is used by the immediate values. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/