From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net,
sam@ravnborg.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
oberparleiter@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] kernel: call constructors
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080519150640.c61dca49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48313DA2.2090108@de.ibm.com>
On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:43:14 +0200
Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
>
> Call constructors during kernel init and module load. Required by the
> gcov profiling infrastructure: gcc's profiling code uses constructors
> to register profiling data structures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++
> include/asm-generic/sections.h | 1 +
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 5 +++++
> include/linux/init.h | 2 ++
> include/linux/module.h | 3 +++
> init/main.c | 10 ++++++++++
> kernel/module.c | 13 +++++++++++++
What happens with architectures which do not use
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h? A quicky grep points at
arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-19 8:43 [PATCH 1/7] kernel: call constructors Peter Oberparleiter
2008-05-19 22:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-20 6:45 ` Peter Oberparleiter
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