Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64

[Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>]

With this patch i have only 25 reports....
but i still have a lot of ext4 and some other reports.


Catalin Marinas schrieb:
> The .data.read_mostly and .data.cacheline_aligned sections aren't
> covered by the _sdata .. _edata range on X86_64. This affects the
> kmemleak reporting leading to possible false positives by not scanning
> all the whole data section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
> 
> (I re-posted this patch with comments and cc'ing the relevant people)
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    7 -------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 367e878..59f31d2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -112,11 +112,6 @@ SECTIONS
>  		_sdata = .;
>  		DATA_DATA
>  		CONSTRUCTORS
> -
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> -		/* End of data section */
> -		_edata = .;
> -#endif
>  	} :data
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> @@ -156,10 +151,8 @@ SECTIONS
>  	.data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
>  		*(.data.read_mostly)
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>  		/* End of data section */
>  		_edata = .;
> -#endif
>  	}
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>