From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:23:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20090716202300.GA6096@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <4A5C20E5.6010203@fisher-privat.net> <84144f020907140019g511723dctb541f6333d1a082b@mail.gmail.com> <4A5C41C8.7040904@fisher-privat.net> <1247564356.28240.30.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1247565175.28240.37.camel-hhZApKj8DF/YkXV2EHHjLW3o5bpOHsLO@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Alexey Fisher , Pekka Enberg , Kernel Testers List , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Ingo Molnar , x86-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:52:55AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > 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 > Cc: Sam Ravnborg > Cc: Ingo Molnar > --- To do so was on my todo list when I looked at vmlinux.lds.S for x86, but as I got sidetracked I never got to it. Which I see was bad.. This patch has my: Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Sam