From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764135AbYESWL4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 18:11:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761139AbYESWIQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 18:08:16 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49883 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763367AbYESWIO (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 18:08:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:06:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Peter Oberparleiter 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 Message-Id: <20080519150640.c61dca49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48313DA2.2090108@de.ibm.com> References: <48313DA2.2090108@de.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:43:14 +0200 Peter Oberparleiter wrote: > From: Peter Oberparleiter > > 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 > --- > 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