Newer asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h provides a DATA_DATA macro which defines the content of what is normally referred to by *(.data). It permits adding more "subsections" (declared by gcc with the section attribute or in assembly), which will be linked in the .data section. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: paulus@samba.org CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org -- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-07-11 11:55:48.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-07-11 15:48:42.000000000 -0400 @@ -174,7 +174,9 @@ } #else .data : { - *(.data .data.rel* .toc1) + DATA_DATA + *(.data.rel*) + *(.toc1) *(.branch_lt) } -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68