From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>, Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2, part4 01/39] vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:24:27 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1364109934-7851-2-git-send-email-jiang.liu@huawei.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1364109934-7851-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@huawei.com> This patch documents global variables exported from vmlinux.lds. 1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.S. 2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[]. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- include/asm-generic/sections.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h index c1a1216..f1a24b5 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. */ -- 1.7.9.5
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From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>, Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2, part4 01/39] vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:24:27 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1364109934-7851-2-git-send-email-jiang.liu@huawei.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1364109934-7851-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@huawei.com> This patch documents global variables exported from vmlinux.lds. 1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.S. 2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[]. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- include/asm-generic/sections.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h index c1a1216..f1a24b5 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. */ -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-24 7:27 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 177+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2013-03-24 7:24 [RFC PATCH v2, part4 00/39] Simplify mem_init() implementations and kill num_physpages Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu [this message] 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 01/39] vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 9:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-03-24 9:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 02/39] avr32: normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 03/39] c6x: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-25 17:56 ` Mark Salter 2013-03-25 17:56 ` Mark Salter 2013-03-26 15:23 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-26 15:23 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 04/39] h8300: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 05/39] score: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 06/39] tile: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 07/39] UML: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 08/39] mm: introduce helper function mem_init_print_info() to simplify mem_init() Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 09/39] mm/alpha: prepare for removing num_physpages and " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 09/39] mm: use totalram_pages instead of num_physpages at runtime Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 12:26 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 12:26 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 10/39] mm/alpha: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init() Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 10/39] mm/ARM: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 11/39] mm/ARM64: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 11/39] mm/ARM: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 12/39] mm/ARM64: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 12/39] mm/AVR32: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 13/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 13/39] mm/blackfin: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 14/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 14/39] mm/c6x: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 15/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 15/39] mm/cris: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 16/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 16/39] mm/frv: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 17/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 17/39] mm/h8300: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 18/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 18/39] mm/hexagon: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 19/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 19/39] mm/IA64: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 20/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 20/39] mm/m32r: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 21/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:24 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 21/39] mm/m68k: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 22/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 22/39] mm/microblaze: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 23/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 23/39] mm/MIPS: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 24/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 24/39] mm/mn10300: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 25/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 25/39] mm/openrisc: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 26/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 26/39] mm/PARISC: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 27/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 27/39] mm/ppc: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 28/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 28/39] mm/s390: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 29/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 29/39] mm/score: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 30/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 30/39] mm/SH: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 31/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 12:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 12:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 12:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 12:11 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 12:11 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 12:11 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 31/39] mm/SPARC: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 32/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 32/39] mm/tile: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 33/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 33/39] mm/um: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 34/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 34/39] mm/unicore32: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 35/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 35/39] mm/x86: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 36/39] " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 36/39] mm/xtensa: " Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 37/39] mm: use totalram_pages instead of num_physpages at runtime Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 12:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 12:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 37/39] mm/xtensa: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init() Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 38/39] mm/hotplug: prepare for removing num_physpages Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 39/39] mm: kill global variable num_physpages Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 7:25 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-24 8:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 00/39] Simplify mem_init() implementations and kill num_physpages James Bottomley 2013-03-24 8:11 ` James Bottomley 2013-03-25 16:19 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-25 16:19 ` Jiang Liu 2013-03-25 17:07 ` Vineet Gupta 2013-03-25 17:07 ` Vineet Gupta 2013-03-25 17:07 ` Vineet Gupta 2013-03-25 12:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2, part4 16/39] mm/frv: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init() David Howells 2013-03-25 12:21 ` David Howells
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