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Subject[PATCH v5, part4 01/41] vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations
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This patch documents global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.
1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
include/asm-generic/sections.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index c1a1216..f1a24b5 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -3,6 +3,26 @@

/* References to section boundaries */

+/*
+ * Usage guidelines:
+ * _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in arch-independent code
+ * [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain .rodata.*
+ * and/or .init.* sections
+ * [_sdata, _edata]: contains .data.* sections, may also contain .rodata.*
+ * and/or .init.* sections.
+ * [__start_rodata, __end_rodata]: contains .rodata.* sections
+ * [__init_begin, __init_end]: contains .init.* sections, but .init.text.*
+ * may be out of this range on some architectures.
+ * [_sinittext, _einittext]: contains .init.text.* sections
+ * [__bss_start, __bss_stop]: contains BSS sections
+ *
+ * Following global variables are optional and may be unavailable on some
+ * architectures and/or kernel configurations.
+ * _text, _data
+ * __kprobes_text_start, __kprobes_text_end
+ * __entry_text_start, __entry_text_end
+ * __ctors_start, __ctors_end
+ */
extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[];
extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[];
extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[];
@@ -12,7 +32,6 @@ extern char _end[];
extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
extern char __entry_text_start[], __entry_text_end[];
-extern char __initdata_begin[], __initdata_end[];
extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];

/* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */
--
1.7.9.5


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