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From: Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:04:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4779DEDA.90207@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712191611.52239.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:

> 
> Subject: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text.
> 
> Current code could cause a bug in symbol_put_addr() if an arch used
> kmalloc module text: we might think the symbol belongs to the core
> kernel.
> 
> The downside is that this might make backtraces through (discarded)
> init functions harder to read on some archs, but we already have that
> issue for modules and noone has complained.


Thanks Rusty,  This patch fixes my problem.
Tested-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
 




  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-01  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  6:55 [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  6:57 ` [RFC] [patch 2/2] Refuse kprobe insertion on __init section code Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  7:09 ` [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address Andrew Morton
2007-12-14  7:51   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-12-18  4:57     ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-18  6:46       ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-18  7:23         ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-19  5:11           ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-01  6:34             ` Srinivasa Ds [this message]
2007-12-14  9:30   ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14 10:17     ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14 12:46       ` Johannes Weiner
2007-12-17 10:15         ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-17 10:20           ` [RFC] [patch 2/2] Refuse kprobe insertion on __init section code Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  9:34   ` Srinivasa Ds

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