Re: add new code section for kernel code

[Dimitry Andric]

Russell King wrote:
> Thanks for testing; I've applied this patch so 2.6.17-rc2 onwards will
> have this fixed.

Maybe this can also be applied to the data sections, for people who
compile with -fdata-sections?  As in the following patch (note that the
.rodata sections are already wildcarded):

diff -urNd a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in	2006-03-20
06:53:29.000000000 +0100
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in	2006-04-10
11:06:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@
   .got			: { *(.got) }
   _got_end = .;
   .got.plt		: { *(.got.plt) }
-  .data			: { *(.data) }
+  .data			: { *(.data) *(.data.*) }
   _edata = .;

   . = BSS_START;
-
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