[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: create .text sub-sections for assembler functions

Daniel Schwierzeck daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 20:20:46 CET 2015


Put all functions coded in assembly in sub-sections of
section .text. This allows the linker to garbage collect
unused assembly functions too.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>
---

 arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h
index 855f707..8c9c4e2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ symbol:
 		.align	2;                              \
 		.type	symbol, @function;              \
 		.ent	symbol, 0;                      \
+		.section .text.symbol, "x";             \
 symbol:		.frame	sp, 0, ra
 
 /*
@@ -68,7 +69,8 @@ symbol:		.frame	sp, 0, ra
 		.globl	symbol;                         \
 		.align	2;                              \
 		.type	symbol, @function;              \
-		.ent	symbol, 0;                       \
+		.ent	symbol, 0;                      \
+		.section .text.symbol, "x";             \
 symbol:		.frame	sp, framesize, rpc
 
 /*
-- 
2.5.0



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