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    srcu: Remove unused vmlinux srcu linker entries · 54e6c11b
    Joel Fernandes (Google) authored
    The SRCU for modules optimization (commit title "srcu: Allocate per-CPU
    data for DEFINE_SRCU() in modules") introduced vmlinux linker entries
    which is unused since it applies only to the built-in vmlinux. So remove
    it to prevent any space usage due to the 8 byte alignment it added.
    vmlinux.lds.h has no effect on module loading and is not used for
    building the module object, so the changes were not needed in the first
    place since the optimization is specific to modules.
    
    Tested with SRCU torture_type and rcutorture. Put prints in module
    loader to confirm it is able to find and initialize the srcu structures.
    
    Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
    Cc: kernel-team@android.com
    Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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