From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757827AbZEKMZB (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:25:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752650AbZEKMYw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:24:52 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.58]:51327 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752504AbZEKMYw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:24:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:22:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.14.3.375.gd335 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 May 2009 12:23:38.0028 (UTC) FILETIME=[4FC586C0:01C9D233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org _sdata is a common symbol defined by many architectures and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses this symbol when scanning the data sections. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar --- (This patch is against the tip/master branch) arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 4c85b2e..367e878 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ SECTIONS /* Data */ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + /* Start of data section */ + _sdata = .; DATA_DATA CONSTRUCTORS