Keith Owens wrote
I'm trying to track down where the extra .bss like data is coming from.
I will mail the list when I find something.
It turned out to be COMMON. Adding "*(COMMON)" to the .bss definition
put everything back to the original size. That just means that
arch/i386/vmlinux.lds is well tuned already, no orphan sections.
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