Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections onX86_64

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:52:55AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The .data.read_mostly and .data.cacheline_aligned sections aren't
> covered by the _sdata .. _edata range on X86_64. This affects the
> kmemleak reporting leading to possible false positives by not scanning
> all the whole data section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---

To do so was on my todo list when I looked at vmlinux.lds.S for x86, but
as I got sidetracked I never got to it. Which I see was bad..
This patch has my:

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

	Sam
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