public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Am��rico Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Update num_symtab, symtab and strtab right after setup of core_num_syms, core_symtab and core_strtab.
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:39:27 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010051039.28412.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100928010628.GA6923@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:36:28 am Hu Tao wrote:
> symtab/strtab refer to memory that will be vfreed when load_module() is
> done. So update them early.

I don't think so.  See layout_symtab which moves these into the init
section of the module.

Your change would make us unable to see init section symbols; if you
crash during module init, you really want to see these symbols.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  1:06 [PATCH resend] Update num_symtab, symtab and strtab right after setup of core_num_syms, core_symtab and core_strtab Hu Tao
2010-09-28  6:01 ` Hu Tao
2010-10-05  0:09 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=201010051039.28412.rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    --to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=hutao@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tj@kernel.org \
    --cc=xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox