Re: [RFC][PATCH] extable: Make sure all archs define _sdata

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 16:21:55 EST


>
> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Although I suppose if we're supposedly standardizing on _sdata,
> the two uses of _data in arch/alpha/mm/ could be transitioned.

>From include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:

*
* _sdata = .;
* RO_DATA_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
* RW_DATA_SECTION(...)
* _edata = .;
*

So yes - we do standardize on _sdata.
Other symbols for the same ought to be replaced...

Sam
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