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diff --git a/scripts/check-function-names.sh b/scripts/check-function-names.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Certain function names are disallowed due to section name ambiguities
+# introduced by -ffunction-sections.
+#
+# See the comment above TEXT_MAIN in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.
+
+objfile="$1"
+
+if [ ! -f "$objfile" ]; then
+	echo "usage: $0 <file.o>" >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+bad_symbols=$(nm "$objfile" | awk '$2 ~ /^[TtWw]$/ {print $3}' | grep -E '^(startup|exit|split|unlikely|hot|unknown)(\.|$)')
+
+if [ -n "$bad_symbols" ]; then
+	echo "$bad_symbols" | while read -r sym; do
+		echo "$objfile: error: $sym() function name creates ambiguity with -ffunction-sections" >&2
+	done
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0