Re: [PATCH 1/7] kernel: call constructors

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:43:14 +0200
Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Call constructors during kernel init and module load. Required by the
> gcov profiling infrastructure: gcc's profiling code uses constructors
> to register profiling data structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    3 +++
>  include/asm-generic/sections.h    |    1 +
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    5 +++++
>  include/linux/init.h              |    2 ++
>  include/linux/module.h            |    3 +++
>  init/main.c                       |   10 ++++++++++
>  kernel/module.c                   |   13 +++++++++++++

What happens with architectures which do not use
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h?  A quicky grep points at

arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
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