[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Include all of .data.* sections in _edata on 64-bit

[tip-bot for Catalin Marinas]

Commit-ID:  8bcdbe427924a1e4b4e4cf68020e92e9f93fe011
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8bcdbe427924a1e4b4e4cf68020e92e9f93fe011
Author:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:52:55 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:20 +0200

x86: Include all of .data.* sections in _edata on 64-bit

The .data.read_mostly and .data.cacheline_aligned sections
aren't covered by the _sdata .. _edata range on x86-64. This
affects kmemleak reporting leading to possible false
positives by not scanning the whole data section.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1247565175.28240.37.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 367e878..59f31d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -112,11 +112,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		_sdata = .;
 		DATA_DATA
 		CONSTRUCTORS
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-		/* End of data section */
-		_edata = .;
-#endif
 	} :data
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -156,10 +151,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	.data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		*(.data.read_mostly)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 		/* End of data section */
 		_edata = .;
-#endif
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
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