[PATCH 10/14] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file

Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24T16:47:10Z

_sdata and __bss_stop are common symbols defined by many architectures
and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak
uses these symbols when scanning the data sections.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index c90f272..6c07797 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ SECTIONS

.data : AT(__data_loc) {
_data = .; /* address in memory */
+ _sdata = .;

/*
* first, the init task union, aligned
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ SECTIONS
__bss_start = .; /* BSS */
*(.bss)
*(COMMON)
+ __bss_stop = .;
_end = .;
}
/* Stabs debugging sections. */