From 1260866a271abc84274345580f3d613d3bceff87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:22:00 +0100 Subject: 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 LKML-Reference: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S') 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 CONSTRUCTORS -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258