[PATCH] ARM: Avoid discarding sections that might have SMP_ON_UP fixups

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:33:56AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> Agreed -- actually, I suspected we might need to support this.  But I
> don't think solving this problem (= keeping the fixup implementation
> in memory and enhancing the module loader) solved the
> fixups-referencing-sections-discarded-from-vmlinux problem.  These
> seem to be two separate issues.  I am filing to understand something?

They are separate, but related issues.  They both ultimately have the
same cause - the placement of the spinlock code inline rather than
out of line, resulting in fixups appearing all over the place rather
than just in kernel/spinlock.o.