From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module initialization
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:52:26 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907011452.26720.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A19C60200007800008353@vpn.id2.novell.com>
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:26 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
> Just like .init, these sections are supposed to be unneeded after init,
> and modpost warns about improper section references anyway.
Tim Abbot had a section renaming patch, for -ffunction-sections. Can we kill
two birds with one stone and have a unique string for init sections, and
another for exit sections?
> Likewise
> for .*exit which, other than .exit, aren't needed for the module unload
> path.
Currently true, but I can't see that being true in general.
If we're going to abstract init detection, it would be good to wrap init
section renaming (for powerpc64 at least) too.
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 11:57 [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module initialization Jan Beulich
2009-07-01 5:22 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-07-01 7:04 ` Jan Beulich
2009-07-06 15:55 ` Tim Abbott
2009-07-07 6:27 ` Jan Beulich
2009-07-01 7:28 ` Amerigo Wang
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