Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at

Randy Dunlap
2007-05-30T23:34:13Z

On Wed, 30 May 2007 16:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote:

> 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?

Maybe 'objdump drivers/built-in.o and then grep that output (file)
for /exit.text/ ...

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~Randy
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