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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-05-11 13:22:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-12 09:21:33 +0200 |
| commit | 1260866a271abc84274345580f3d613d3bceff87 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e03bf184965f1ec0c097779c430d2404d82b979 /arch | |
| parent | 8c5dd8f43367f4f266dd616f11658005bc2d20ef (diff) | |
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x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file
_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.
[ Impact: add new global symbol ]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 4c85b2e2bb65..367e87882041 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 |