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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Mark literal strings in __init / __exit code
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On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 22:41 +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> there is more to optimize
> if one is patient enough ;)

Ever thus.

> And all of those strings should be in the .rodata section, now. But
> why you're asking?

Because now they will be duplicated in .rodata
and the __init section no?

> Yes. My vanilla vmlinux build has quite a lot of copies of "off" in
> it. But I doubt any linker would merge those. Does LTO do so?

I would expect that duplicated strings in
separate sections would not be merged.