Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATAsection into init BSS section

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 04:34:06 EST


On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Uninitialized variable in init DATA sections are relocated into init
> > BSS sections to reduce kernel image size. Several KB can be reduced.
>
> > -int __initdata early_ioremap_debug;
> > +int __initbss early_ioremap_debug;
>
> will we get some sort of build error if we accidentally do:
>
> int __initbss early_ioremap_debug = 1;
>
> ?

I tested it just now, and there is no build error.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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