From: tip-bot for Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
bug-track@fisher-privat.net, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
sam@ravnborg.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Include all of .data.* sections in _edata on 64-bit
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:06:11 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-8bcdbe427924a1e4b4e4cf68020e92e9f93fe011@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Commit-ID: 8bcdbe427924a1e4b4e4cf68020e92e9f93fe011
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/8bcdbe427924a1e4b4e4cf68020e92e9f93fe011
Author: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:52:55 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:20 +0200
x86: Include all of .data.* sections in _edata on 64-bit
The .data.read_mostly and .data.cacheline_aligned sections
aren't covered by the _sdata .. _edata range on x86-64. This
affects kmemleak reporting leading to possible false
positives by not scanning the whole data section.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 -------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 367e878..59f31d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -112,11 +112,6 @@ SECTIONS
_sdata = .;
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- /* End of data section */
- _edata = .;
-#endif
} :data
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -156,10 +151,8 @@ SECTIONS
.data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data.read_mostly)
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
/* End of data section */
_edata = .;
-#endif
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 6:08 60 memory leaks.. or is it some thing wrong with kmemleak? Alexey Fisher
2009-07-14 7:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-07-14 8:28 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-07-14 9:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 9:52 ` [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64 Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 10:13 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-07-14 10:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 10:37 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-07-14 12:26 ` ext4 memory leak (was Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64) Catalin Marinas
2009-07-15 8:03 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-15 8:54 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-07-18 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-18 13:30 ` Alexey Fisher
2009-07-18 22:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-18 22:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-15 10:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 12:42 ` [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64 Catalin Marinas
2009-07-16 20:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-18 12:06 ` tip-bot for Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-07-18 20:29 ` [kmemleak] 60 wornings on sysfs_new_dirent+0x10c Alexey Fisher
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