From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net, sam@ravnborg.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] kernel: call constructors
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 13:56:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48204766.7020506@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505211942.3945d01c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2008 17:24:04 +0200 Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
>> --- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ SECTIONS
>> *(.toc)
>> }
>> #endif
>> + .data.gcov : {
>> + CONSTRUCTORS
>> + }
>
> Why did powerpc (and only powerpc) need this touchup? It already includes
> asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h?
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines CONSTRUCTORS but it needs to be
referenced in the actual linker script to become active. For some reason
unknown to me, CONSTRUCTORS shows up in all arch/*/vmlinux.lds.S scripts
except for powerpc (see also my other reply about the CONSTRUCTORS
section).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 15:24 [RFC PATCH 1/6] kernel: call constructors Peter Oberparleiter
2008-05-05 19:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-06 11:50 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2008-05-06 4:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 11:56 ` Peter Oberparleiter [this message]
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