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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] next-20090115 - s390x - mm/kmemleak.c
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:20:01 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 	next-20090115 allyesconfig build fails on s390x
> 
> mm/built-in.o: In function `kmemleak_scan':
> mm/kmemleak.c:977: undefined reference to `_sdata'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

A lot of architectures don't have _sdata definined in their linker scripts.
On s390 _sdata would be the same as _etext. But that is not necessarily true
for all architectures.