help with ppc sections?

[Grant Likely]

On 7/26/07, Chris Friesen <cfriesen at nortel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm porting kprobes to 2.6.14, and I think I've got it mostly done.  The
> last thing that I want to do is to mark flush_icache_range() as part of
> the .kprobes.text section so that we don't accidently try to probe it.

Hey Chris,

Mild question; What the *@*#^$! are you doing trying to backport to a
2 year old kernel?!?  :-)


>
> On ppc64 this was done by duplicating the _GLOBAL macro and just
> modifying the ".section" line.
>
> Unfortunately for me, ppc doesn't have a ".section" line in that macro,
> so I'm at a bit of a loss.

Just add the section.  Should be trivial to do.  You might have to add
it to the linker script as well.

g.

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