[PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER

The option never worked well and functionlist wasn't well maintained. Also it made the build very slow on many binutils version. So just remove it. Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -660,14 +660,6 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
 
 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
 
-config REORDER
-	bool "Function reordering"
-	default n
-	help
-         This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more 
-         optimal TLB usage. If you have pretty much any version of binutils, 
-	 this can increase your kernel build time by roughly one minute.
-
 config K8_NB
 	def_bool y
 	depends on AGP_AMD64 || IOMMU || (PCI && NUMA)

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Makefile b/arch/x86_64/Makefile
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ cflags-y += -m64
 cflags-y += -mno-red-zone
 cflags-y += -mcmodel=kernel
 cflags-y += -pipe
-cflags-kernel-$(CONFIG_REORDER) += -ffunction-sections
 cflags-y += -Wno-sign-compare
 cflags-y += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO),y)