Re: smp_locks reference_discarded errors

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:33:38PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:08:51PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:10:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:40:42AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > came out of a 'make buildcheck' a day or two ago (the following day,
> > > > Sam nuked reference_discarded.pl in favour of it being done
> > > > magically somewhere else (I've not looked into how its done now).
> > > The check is part of modpost now. modpost is only used when building
> > > modules but that holds true for most builds anyway therefore I did not
> > > move it to a separate executable.
> > >...
> > 
> > This doesn't sound good.
> > 
> > This means that we have no longer any tool that warns us about e.g. 
> > references from non-__exit code to __exit code [1]?
> > [1] __exit, not __{dev,cpu,mem}exit
> 
> It does warn for this also. The test I have carried out has mostly been
> on allmodconfig builds though. I assume you are worried for the case
> when a module is built-in and the __exit section is discarded - or?

Exactly - especially since in kernel 2.6 we are getting on architectures 
like i386 no longer link errors as we did in kernel 2.4.

Perhaps I'm only concerned because my usual builds didn't produce a 
single warning...  ;-)

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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