Newer asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h provides a DATA_DATA macro which defines the content of what is normally referred to by *(.data). It permits adding more "subsections" (declared by gcc with the section attribute or in assembly), which will be linked in the .data section. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: chris@zankel.net --- arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:20:09.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:20:41.000000000 -0400 @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ _fdata = .; .data : { - *(.data) CONSTRUCTORS + DATA_DATA + CONSTRUCTORS . = ALIGN(XCHAL_ICACHE_LINESIZE); *(.data.cacheline_aligned) } -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/