From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@x86-64.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:49:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466EC08A.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0706120632p54ad83d0ka0a07a9fd9b276b4@mail.gmail.com>
>> And from a purely theoretical
>> perspective I don't think such references should be considered bad -
>> .exit.* should be discarded together with .init.* if unloading is
>> impossible (built-in or configured off), not before module/kernel
>> initialization.
>
>Hmm, but that's not how things are, presently. __exit marked
>functions are simply not linked into the kernel (when that module
>is being built-in) at all -- this "discard" happens at _build time_
>(to save on kernel image size).
Not really, at least not for i386 and x86-64 - see their vmlinux.lds.S files.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-12 7:48 [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references Jan Beulich
2007-06-12 11:14 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-12 12:09 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-12 12:43 ` Jan Beulich
2007-06-12 13:32 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-12 13:49 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2007-06-12 14:09 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-12 18:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-13 3:18 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-13 4:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-13 6:59 ` Jan Beulich
2007-06-13 7:39 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-13 7:49 ` Jan Beulich
2007-06-13 8:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-12 17:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
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