2015-01-31 0:45 GMT+03:00 Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:47:13 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabi...@samsung.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> >> +struct kasan_global {
>> >> +  const void *beg;                /* Address of the beginning of the 
>> >> global variable. */
>> >> +  size_t size;                    /* Size of the global variable. */
>> >> +  size_t size_with_redzone;       /* Size of the variable + size of the 
>> >> red zone. 32 bytes aligned */
>> >> +  const void *name;
>> >> +  const void *module_name;        /* Name of the module where the global 
>> >> variable is declared. */
>> >> +  unsigned long has_dynamic_init; /* This needed for C++ */
>> >
>> > This can be removed?
>> >
>>
>> No, compiler dictates layout of this struct. That probably deserves a 
>> comment.
>
> I see.  A link to the relevant gcc doc would be good.
>

There is no doc, only gcc source code.

> Perhaps the compiler provides a header file so clients of this feature
> don't need to write their own?
>

Nope.
Actually, we are the only client of this feature outside gcc code.
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