On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:25:07PM +0000, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:09:42AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:37:47PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > --- linux-2.6.20-rc3/lib/kobject.c 2007-01-01 23:04:49.000000000
> > > -0800
> > > +++ devel/lib/kobject.c 2007-01-04 21:13:21.000000000 -0800
> > > @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
> > > #include <linux/module.h>
> > > #include <linux/stat.h>
> > > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > > +#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
> > > +#include <asm-generic/sections.h>
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > > +static int ptr_in_range(void *ptr, void *start, void *end)
> > > +{
> > > + /*
> > > + * This should hopefully get rid of causing warnings
> > > + * if the architecture did not set one of the section
> > > + * variables up.
> > > + */
> > > + if (start >= end)
> > > + return 0;
> > > +
> > > + if ((ptr >= start) && (ptr < end))
> > > + return 1;
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> > >
> > >
> > > Can anyone explain WTF is going on here? Including asm-generic headers
> > > in core code definitly is not okay. As are random CONFIG_X86_32 ifdefs
> > > in said code.
> >
> > It's a hack for debugging. See the full patch at:
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch
> >
> > It is never going to go to mainline, due to the arch-specific hacks as
> > you have noted. But is good to have for debugging and getting error
> > reports from users of -mm.
> >
> Could a CONFIG_{MM,HACK} option be added for this kind of hacks? It could
> help clarify what the aim of the code is.
How would that help here? I don't think we want to #ifdef all patches
in the -mm tree that are of this type, that would be a bit nasty.
thanks,
greg k-h
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