[PATCH 09/15] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files

[Catalin Marinas]

_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.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
index a9b8560..b5d2b49 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ SECTIONS
 
   /* writeable */
   . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+  _sdata = .;			/* Start of data section */
   .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	/* Data */
 	DATA_DATA
 	CONSTRUCTORS
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 46e0544..8ad376c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ SECTIONS
   RODATA
 
   . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);		/* Align data segment to page size boundary */
+  _sdata = .;			/* Start of data section */
 				/* Data */
   .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	DATA_DATA

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