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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-07-12 12:34:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-07-12 12:34:42 +0200 |
| commit | f2006e27396f55276f24434f56e208d86e7f9908 (patch) | |
| tree | 71896db916d33888b4286f80117d3cac0da40e6d /include/asm-generic/sections.h | |
| parent | e399eb56a6110e13f97e644658648602e2b08de7 (diff) | |
| parent | 9903883f1dd6e86f286b7bfa6e4b423f98c1cd9e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/urgent
Get upstream changes so we can apply fixes against them
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/sections.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/sections.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h index c1a1216e29c..f1a24b5c3b9 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h @@ -3,6 +3,26 @@ /* References to section boundaries */ +/* + * Usage guidelines: + * _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in arch-independent code + * [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain .rodata.* + * and/or .init.* sections + * [_sdata, _edata]: contains .data.* sections, may also contain .rodata.* + * and/or .init.* sections. + * [__start_rodata, __end_rodata]: contains .rodata.* sections + * [__init_begin, __init_end]: contains .init.* sections, but .init.text.* + * may be out of this range on some architectures. + * [_sinittext, _einittext]: contains .init.text.* sections + * [__bss_start, __bss_stop]: contains BSS sections + * + * Following global variables are optional and may be unavailable on some + * architectures and/or kernel configurations. + * _text, _data + * __kprobes_text_start, __kprobes_text_end + * __entry_text_start, __entry_text_end + * __ctors_start, __ctors_end + */ extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[]; extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[]; extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[]; @@ -12,7 +32,6 @@ extern char _end[]; extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[]; extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[]; extern char __entry_text_start[], __entry_text_end[]; -extern char __initdata_begin[], __initdata_end[]; extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[]; /* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */ |