Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933300AbZGPUXD (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933284AbZGPUXC (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:02 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:59300 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933275AbZGPUXB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:23:00 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Alexey Fisher , Pekka Enberg , Kernel Testers List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64 Message-ID: <20090716202300.GA6096@merkur.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Catalin Marinas , Alexey Fisher , Pekka Enberg , Kernel Testers List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org References: <4A5C20E5.6010203@fisher-privat.net> <84144f020907140019g511723dctb541f6333d1a082b@mail.gmail.com> <4A5C41C8.7040904@fisher-privat.net> <1247564356.28240.30.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 23 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 > Cc: Sam Ravnborg > Cc: Ingo Molnar > --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/