linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 13:09:18 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files


* Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

> _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. The _edata symbol in
> vmlinux_64.lds.S was also moved further down to include the
> .data.read_mostly section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S |    1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S |    3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Please do this against the latest x86 tree:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

	Ingo
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