linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/14] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss

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Message-ID: <20090424164154.4476.20622.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:41:54 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 10/14] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S
	file

_sdata and __bss_stop are common symbols defined by many architectures
and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak
uses these symbols when scanning the data sections.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index c90f272..6c07797 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	.data : AT(__data_loc) {
 		_data = .;		/* address in memory */
+		_sdata = .;
 
 		/*
 		 * first, the init task union, aligned
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		__bss_start = .;	/* BSS				*/
 		*(.bss)
 		*(COMMON)
+		__bss_stop = .;
 		_end = .;
 	}
 					/* Stabs debugging sections.	*/

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