On 9/8/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:34:59 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from
> > > > arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o
> > >
> > > This usually means that there is a static __exit function (or __devexit
> > > etc.)
> > > somewhere in the object being linked. The error message is pretty
> > > unhelpful
> > > in figuring out *where* in the module. Look at the 'mm' patches that
> > > touch
> > > arch/ia64/kernel to see if one of them tinkers with __exit* attributes.
> >
> > Confused. There are >2500 static __exit functions in the tree, including
> > ones like
> >
> > arch/ia64/kernel/esi.c:static void __exit esi_exit (void)
>
> That message means the linker found someone referencing an .exit.text
> function -- on other archs this would've been a section mismatch but on
> ia64 its a link error due to reasons below
> (although it would not have ever caused an oops).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In general, there's obviously nothing wrong with ia64's policy of discarding
.exit.text at link time (in fact it's a good optimization), and generally most
references from .init.text (or .text) to .exit.text would really be oopsen.
But not so with this case, because with HOTPLUG_CPU=n (which is when
this link error can occur) it's not possible for the notifier to be
called out in
the first place, and especially not for a CPU_DEAD event, which is when
this reference could've occurred in practice.
Anyway, I came across another little thing while investigating this, patch
attached ...
Satyam
[PATCH] ia64 perfmon: Remove exit_pfm_fs()
Because it is dead code and not referenced by anybody else (that file
cannot be built modular).
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c~fix 2007-09-08 12:54:24.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c 2007-09-08 12:54:56.000000000 +0530
@@ -1539,13 +1539,6 @@ init_pfm_fs(void)
return err;
}
-static void __exit
-exit_pfm_fs(void)
-{
- unregister_filesystem(&pfm_fs_type);
- mntput(pfmfs_mnt);
-}
-
static ssize_t
pfm_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
{
