linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4, part3 06/41] tile: normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds

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Message-ID: <5168749E.80008@tilera.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:54:54 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4, part3 06/41] tile: normalize global variables exported
 by vmlinux.lds

On 4/6/2013 10:32 AM, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds to conform usage
> guidelines from include/asm-generic/sections.h.
>
> 1) Use _text to mark the start of the kernel image including the head
> text, and _stext to mark the start of the .text section.
> 2) Export mandatory global variables __init_begin and __init_end.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/tile/include/asm/sections.h |    2 +-
>  arch/tile/kernel/setup.c         |    4 ++--
>  arch/tile/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |    4 +++-
>  arch/tile/mm/init.c              |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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