Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] next-20090115 - s390x - mm/kmemleak.c

From: Heiko Carstens <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:20:01 +0100

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 	next-20090115 allyesconfig build fails on s390x
> 
> mm/built-in.o: In function `kmemleak_scan':
> mm/kmemleak.c:977: undefined reference to `_sdata'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

A lot of architectures don't have _sdata definined in their linker scripts.
On s390 _sdata would be the same as _etext. But that is not necessarily true
for all architectures.