From 54e6c11b9e74fd780e52f95c3eed313e0f4e6b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 20:47:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] srcu: Remove unused vmlinux srcu linker entries The SRCU for modules optimization (commit title "srcu: Allocate per-CPU data for DEFINE_SRCU() in modules") introduced vmlinux linker entries which is unused since it applies only to the built-in vmlinux. So remove it to prevent any space usage due to the 8 byte alignment it added. vmlinux.lds.h has no effect on module loading and is not used for building the module object, so the changes were not needed in the first place since the optimization is specific to modules. Tested with SRCU torture_type and rcutorture. Put prints in module loader to confirm it is able to find and initialize the srcu structures. Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index ba1ad39468fc1..088987e9a3eaa 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -337,10 +337,6 @@ KEEP(*(__tracepoints_ptrs)) /* Tracepoints: pointer array */ \ __stop___tracepoints_ptrs = .; \ *(__tracepoints_strings)/* Tracepoints: strings */ \ - . = ALIGN(8); \ - __start___srcu_struct = .; \ - *(___srcu_struct_ptrs) \ - __end___srcu_struct = .; \ } \ \ .rodata1 : AT(ADDR(.rodata1) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ -- 2.30.2