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    linker script: throw away .discard section · 405d967d
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    x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
    .discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
    and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
    variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
    
    This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.
    
    [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
    Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
    Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
    Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
    Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
    Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
    Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
    Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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