Commit 0b1937ac authored Jul 20, 2007 by David Howells Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 20, 2007

FRV: Fix linkage problems



Make it possible to use __start_notes and __stop_notes without getting a GPREL
overflow error from the FRV linker.

Small variables that would otherwise be in .data or .bss may, depending on the
arch, be placed in special sections (.sdata or .sbss) that permit single
instruction references on fixed instruction width machines.

__start_notes and __stop_notes aren't really char variables, and certainly
don't refer to data in .data or .bss.  Making them type "void" fools the
compiler into not assuming anything about them.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 03ce1104

kernel/ksysfs.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded);
		/*
		* Make /sys/kernel/notes give the raw contents of our kernel .notes section.
		*/
		extern const char __start_notes __attribute__((weak));
		extern const char __stop_notes __attribute__((weak));
		extern const void __start_notes __attribute__((weak));
		extern const void __stop_notes __attribute__((weak));
		#define notes_size (&__stop_notes - &__start_notes)

		static ssize_t notes_read(struct kobject kobj, struct bin_attribute bin_attr,

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