[ I have a sinking feeling Gmail mangled the patch yet again. So,
resending. And I'm getting myself a decent mailer ASAP. Sorry for
all the noise. ]
On 6/27/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/27/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Software Environment:
> > gcc 3.4.6, binutils 2.17
> >
> > Problem Description:
> > Warnings appeared while building kernel:
> >
> > WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x15f84): Section mismatch: reference to
> > .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')
> [...]
> From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> kthreadd_setup() is in an __init section, but we know that it's
> safe to be called from kthreadd() since the latter is only called
> at kernel init time, so mark kthreadd_setup() __init_refok so
> that modpost won't complain about what text section it is in.
Hi Randy,
__init_refok is for callers, so we should actually be marking kthreadd()
as __init_refok. But I feel kthreadd_setup() doesn't want to be a separate
function at all. This is for 2.6.22-rc6, so kindly apply.
---
From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x15f84): Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')
is because kernel/kthread.c:kthreadd() is not __init but calls
kthreadd_setup() which is __init. But this is ok, because kthreadd_setup()
is only ever called at init time, and then kthreadd() proceeds into its
"for (;;)" loop.
We could mark kthreadd() __init_refok, but I feel kthreadd_setup() with
just one call site and 4 lines in it shouldn't be a separate function at
all. So let's lose it and code it explicitly in kthreadd() itself.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 12 ++----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
---
diff -ruNp a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
--- a/kernel/kthread.c 2007-06-26 06:33:08.000000000 +0530
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c 2007-06-27 02:57:46.000000000 +0530
@@ -214,23 +214,15 @@ int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
-
-static __init void kthreadd_setup(void)
+int kthreadd(void *unused)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+ /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
-
ignore_signals(tsk);
-
set_user_nice(tsk, -5);
set_cpus_allowed(tsk, CPU_MASK_ALL);
-}
-
-int kthreadd(void *unused)
-{
- /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
- kthreadd_setup();
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
-
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