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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-05-11 13:22:00 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-12 09:21:33 +0200
commit1260866a271abc84274345580f3d613d3bceff87 (patch)
tree4e03bf184965f1ec0c097779c430d2404d82b979 /arch/x86/kernel
parent8c5dd8f43367f4f266dd616f11658005bc2d20ef (diff)
x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux.lds.S file
_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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4c85b2e2bb6..367e8788204 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
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