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Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:34:43 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 tip/master 1/3] retpoline: Introduce start/end
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:06:10 +0000
"Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 21:01 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > 
> > +#define X86_INDIRECT_THUNK(reg)        \
> > +               *(.text.__x86.indirect_thunk.##reg)
> 
> Note that we don't actually care about those being in their own
> section, named after the register. That was just a hangover from the
> initial GCC COMDAT implementation.
> 
> If it makes your life easier just to put them all in a single section,
> go ahead.

Got it. I just concerned that gcc was using this section. 
I'll make it ".text.__x86.indirect_thunk" to consolidate.

Thanks!

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>