+ vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations.patch added to -mm tree

+ vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

Subject: + vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations.patch added to -mm tree
To: liuj97@gmail.com,arnd@arndb.de,jiang.liu@huawei.com
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:32:24 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations.patch

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From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Subject: vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations

Document 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>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/asm-generic/sections.h |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN include/asm-generic/sections.h~vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations include/asm-generic/sections.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h~vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations
+++ a/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. */
_

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mm-concentrate-modification-of-totalram_pages-into-the-mm-core.patch
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vmlinuxlds-add-comments-for-global-variables-and-clean-up-useless-declarations.patch
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