Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 May 2011 07:34:19 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] extable: Make sure all archs define _sdata |
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:34:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Can I get an Acked-by (or comment) from the following Maintainers: > > alpha > m32r > m68k > mips > parisc > > Ingo has discovered that one of my patches broke the builds of these > architectures. Although he added a quick fix, this patch supplies the > proper fix and touches the affected architectures. Please review and Ack > (or NACK with guidance) this patch. > > -- Steve > > A new utility function is used to determine if a passed in address is > part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not return true for RO > data, but this utility must work for RW data. Thus both _sdata and > _edata must be defined and continuous, without .init sections that may > later be freed and replaced by volatile memory (memory that can be > freed). > > This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from ever > being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global data that is > not in a module or has been allocated, or false otherwise.
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Thanks,
Ralf
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