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Subject[tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file
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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