linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATA section into init BSS section

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Message-ID: <20080221090557.GB20055@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:05:57 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATA
	section into init BSS section


* Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:

> Uninitialized variable in init DATA sections are relocated into init 
> BSS sections to reduce kernel image size. Several KB can be reduced.

> -int __initdata early_ioremap_debug;
> +int __initbss early_ioremap_debug;

will we get some sort of build error if we accidentally do:

   int __initbss early_ioremap_debug = 1;

?

	Ingo
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