On 1/18/07, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>> > 2. Set command_line as __initdata.
>> You can't.
>>
>> > -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>> > +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>>
>> Uninitialised data is placed in the BSS. Adding __initdata to BSS
>> data causes grief.
> There are many places in kernel that uses __initdata for uninitialized
> variables.
>
> For example:
> static int __initdata is_chipset_set[MAX_HWIFS];
>
> So all these current places are wrong?
> If I initialize the data will it be OK.
objdump -t vmlinux |grep -3 is_chipset_set suggests that it's placed
into .init.data here, not into .bss.
Russell ?
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