Re: [PATCH] nvdimm: constify device_type structures

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:49 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> What does the data column actually represent?  I tried size on the .o file
> generated from:
> 
> commit a65f0161f4d69d6738d4821e649448312cd818e2
> Author: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jan 17 15:22:28 2017 +1100
> 
> with CONFIG_X86_64=y and I get:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   19726	   3480	     16	  23222	   5ab6	drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o
> 
> but when I run objdump -sh drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o, I find a .data
> segment of size 1008 and a .data.unlikely segment of size 8, which don't
> match up with the results of size.

Likely you have dynamic_debug enabled and you
need to include these additional sections:

	__jump_table
	__verbose

If user_mode_linux is enabled, add sections:

	.fini_array
	.init_array