linux-kernel - Re: missing .data.shared_align placement in vmlinux

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Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:19:55 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: missing .data.shared_align placement in vmlinux

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 01:14, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>  On 08/04/2010 01:40 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
>> @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
>>  #define DATA_DATA                                                     \
>>        *(.data)                                                        \
>>        *(.ref.data)                                                    \
>> +       *(.data..shared_aligned) /* percpu related */                   \
>
> Typo?  Shouldn't that be ".data.shared_aligned"?  Or where does the '..'
> come from?

include/asm-generic/percpu.h:#define PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION
"..shared_aligned"
include/asm-generic/percpu.h:#define PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION "..shared_aligned"
include/asm-generic/percpu.h:#define PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION "..shared_aligned"
-mike