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| author | Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> | 2008-02-06 01:36:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-06 10:41:01 -0800 |
| commit | a3b81113fb6658629f4ebaabf8dd3067cd341020 (patch) | |
| tree | c6823e84d410f18b110ce07726643d7dc841553d /include/asm-generic | |
| parent | 0a5dcb51770be3cd0202d6b90a07996fb40130b6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a3b81113fb6658629f4ebaabf8dd3067cd341020.tar.gz lwn-a3b81113fb6658629f4ebaabf8dd3067cd341020.zip | |
remove support for un-needed _extratext section
When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was
a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr()
called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on
many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which
defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes
_extra_text support.
For some history (provided by Jon):
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/sections.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h index 962cad7cfbbd..8feeae1f2369 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h @@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[]; extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[]; extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[]; extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[]; -extern char _sextratext[] __attribute__((weak)); -extern char _eextratext[] __attribute__((weak)); extern char _end[]; extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[]; extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[]; |