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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] ARM: zImage: remove the static qualifier from global data variables
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:12:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429201237.GZ31131@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304031024-5121-9-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:50:23PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> 
> To be able to relocate the .bss section at run time independently from
> the rest of the code, we must make sure that no GOTOFF relocations are
> used with .bss symbols.  This usually means that no global variables can
> be marked static unless they're also const.
> 
> Let's remove the static qualifier from current offenders, or turn them
> into const variables when possible.  Next commit will ensure the build
> fails if one of those is reintroduced due to otherwise enforced coding
> standards for the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/uncompress.h |    5 +++--
>  arch/arm/mach-gemini/include/mach/uncompress.h  |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-iop32x/include/mach/uncompress.h  |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-iop33x/include/mach/uncompress.h  |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/include/mach/uncompress.h  |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/uncompress.h     |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-mxs/include/mach/uncompress.h     |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/include/mach/uncompress.h  |    2 +-
mach-ns9xxx is about to be removed. So maybe just drop the corresponding
hunk.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28 22:50 [PATCH 0/9] zImage fixes Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/9] ARM: zImage: make sure the stack is 64-bit aligned Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  6:58   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM: zImage: Fix bad SP address after relocating kernel Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: zImage: make sure not to relocate on top of the relocation code Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  7:03   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: zImage: the page table memory must be considered before relocation Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  7:04   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM: zImage: no need to get the decompressed size from the filesystem Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 6/9] ARM: zImage: simplify decompress_kernel() Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM: zImage: don't ignore error returned from decompress() Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  7:05   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: zImage: remove the static qualifier from global data variables Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  7:07   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-29 20:12   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-04-29 20:37     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: zImage: make sure no GOTOFF relocs are used with .bss symbols Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-29  7:11   ` Tony Lindgren

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