[PATCH 02/16] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-16T20:19:04Z

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

_sdata is a common symbol defined by many architectures and made
available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses this
symbol when scanning the data sections.

[ Impact: add new global symbol ]

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4c85b2e..367e878 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ SECTIONS
/* Data */
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ /* Start of data section */
+ _sdata = .;
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS

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1.6.2.2