On So, Aug 07 2016, Alan Modra [off-list ref] wrote:

At the risk of being told you (kernel people) have already considerd
this I thought I should mention that the above isn't ideal.  (Nor is
gcc's choice of .text.hot for hot sections, which clashes with
--function-sections for a function called "hot" but that's another
story.)

Or --function-sections should use a unique prefix, like
.text.functions.*

Andreas.

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