On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:49 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> What does the data column actually represent? I tried size on the .o file
> generated from:
>
> commit a65f0161f4d69d6738d4821e649448312cd818e2
> Author: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Tue Jan 17 15:22:28 2017 +1100
>
> with CONFIG_X86_64=y and I get:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 19726 3480 16 23222 5ab6 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o
>
> but when I run objdump -sh drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o, I find a .data
> segment of size 1008 and a .data.unlikely segment of size 8, which don't
> match up with the results of size.
Likely you have dynamic_debug enabled and you
need to include these additional sections:
__jump_table
__verbose
If user_mode_linux is enabled, add sections:
.fini_array
.init_array
