RE: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at

Christoph Lameter
2007-05-30T23:31:35Z

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Luck, Tony wrote:

>
> > `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o:
> > defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
>
>
> This one is a fatal error ... the code is trying to call a function
> that has been marked __exit in a driver that has been built-in, instead
> of as a module. Since a builtin driver can never be unloaded, the kernel
> has thrown away all the __exit routines (at link time).
>
> The error message appears less than helpful in tracking down which
> routine in which driver is the problem though.

Right. I have no idea where to look. The function has no name? Or is the
segment .exit.text referenced by namne in .init.text?