Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATA section into init BSS section | | From | "Huang, Ying" <> | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:26 +0800 | |
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Uninitialized variable in init DATA sections are relocated into init
> > BSS sections to reduce kernel image size. Several KB can be reduced.
>
> > -int __initdata early_ioremap_debug;> > +int __initbss early_ioremap_debug;
>
> will we get some sort of build error if we accidentally do:
>
> int __initbss early_ioremap_debug = 1;
>
> ?
I tested it just now, and there is no build error.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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