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init.h: discard exitcall symbols early
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:28:38 +0000 (16:28 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 29 May 2026 04:24:43 +0000 (21:24 -0700)
commitcd2464a059d6e88eecda87d71d3dbc87175289f0
tree3e55a18a8a71f6caff8161fa886f3540485ab320
parentfe495c4e2ee34f84d856c06d524d43512e1f4f98
init.h: discard exitcall symbols early

Any __exitcall() and built-in module_exit() handler is marked as __used,
which leads to the code being included in the object file and later
discarded at link time.

As far as I can tell, this was originally added at the same time as
initcalls were marked the same way, to prevent them from getting dropped
with gcc-3.4, but it was never actaully necessary to keep exit functions
around.

Mark them as __maybe_unused instead, which lets the compiler treat the
exitcalls as entirely unused, and make better decisions about dropping
specializing static functions called from these.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/acruxMNdnUlyRHiy@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260331142846.3187706-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/init.h