Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 12:30:32 GMT | From | tip-bot for Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file |
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Commit-ID: 4504c6d020fc5aec7659bf7746e71b1b904571f8 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4504c6d020fc5aec7659bf7746e71b1b904571f8 Author: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:22:00 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CommitDate: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:28:55 +0200
x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file
_sdata is a common symbol defined by many architectures and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses this symbol when scanning the data sections.
[ Impact: add new global symbol ]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 4c85b2e..367e878 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ SECTIONS /* Data */ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + /* Start of data section */ + _sdata = .; DATA_DATA CONSTRUCTORS
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