[coreboot-gerrit] Change in coreboot[master]: arch/x86/spinlock: Drop linker section in inline assembly

[Patrick Rudolph (Code Review)]

Patrick Rudolph has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/46839 )

Change subject: arch/x86/spinlock: Drop linker section in inline assembly
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Patch Set 2:

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> Why? And does it? […]

It does cause linker errors as those functions aren't garbage collected.

I guess the problem is that the inline assembly code generates an output section, but --gc-sections only works on input sections, as generated by -ffunction-sections.