[PATCH v2 2/3] powerpc: Discard dynsym section for !PPC32

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:24:28AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com> explains:
> 
>  > Likely you could discard .interp > and .dynstr too, and .dynsym when
>  > !CONFIG_PPC32.
> 
> Discarding of interp and dynstr happened in a previous patch. The dynsym
> cleanup was a bit less straightforward, so it gets it's own patch.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 6570209b0671..2c93a420f456 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -266,14 +266,13 @@ SECTIONS
>  	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
>  	. = ALIGN(8);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
>  	.dynsym : AT(ADDR(.dynsym) - LOAD_OFFSET)
>  	{
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
>  		__dynamic_symtab = .;
> -#endif
>  		*(.dynsym)
>  	}
> -	.dynstr : AT(ADDR(.dynstr) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynstr) }

So this last line belongs in the previous patch then, right?


Segher