Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Denis V. Lunev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> This patch reverts Eric's commit 2b008b0a8e96b726c603c5e1a5a7a509b5f61e35
>>
>> It diets .text & .data section of the kernel if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set.
>> This is safe after list operations cleanup.
>
> Ok. This patch is technically safe because none of the touched
> code can live in a module and so we never touch the exit code path.
>
> However in the general case and as a code idiom this __net_initdata
> on struct pernet_operations is fundamentally horribly broken.
>
> Look at what happens if we use this idiom in module. There
> is only one definition of __initdata ".init.data". The module
> loader places all sections that begin with .init in a region of
> memory that will be discarded after module initialization.
nothing is discarded after module load. Though, I can be wrong. Could
you point me to the exact place?
Regards,
Den
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