Re: Dynamic Debug broken on 2.6.35-rc3?

[Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>]

Hi,

I can confirm that this patch fixes the issue for me.

On Thursday 08 July 2010 23:53:00 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:39:28 -0400
> Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Make sure we properly call ddebug_remove_module() when a module fails to
> > load. In addition, pass the pointer to the "debug table", to both
> > ddebug_add_module(), and ddebug_remove_module() so that we can uniquely
> > identify each set of debug statements. In this way even modules with the
> > same name can be properly identified and removed.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> 
> It'd be nice to track the Reported-by:s.  And the Tested-by:s if/when
> they arrive.  SighIllDoIt.
> 
> The patch (almost) applies to 2.6.34.  So are we missing a Cc:stable tag
> as well?
I'll resubmit with some more meta info and will include stable@kernel.org.

Could it be that this isn't a regression, but a bug that was always present,
but only gets exposed if you add modules with a specific implementation,
e.g. specific declarations of functions missing, etc.?

I tried to patch this into a 2.6.32.X kernel. While some hunks did not
succeed, it looks like an adjusted patch should get submitted for older
stable kernels as well?:

/dev/shm/linux-2.6.32> patch --dry-run -p1 -i ../linux-2.6.35-rc3/dynamic_debug_broken.patch 
patching file include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
Hunk #2 succeeded at 76 with fuzz 2 (offset 3 lines).
patching file include/linux/module.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 376 (offset -11 lines).
patching file kernel/module.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 787.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1596 with fuzz 2 (offset 47 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 2098 (offset 44 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 2548 (offset 62 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 2638 with fuzz 2 (offset 73 lines).
1 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/module.c.rej
patching file lib/dynamic_debug.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 691 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 702 (offset -1 lines).

Thanks Jason for this quick fix!

    Thomas