linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 4/4] module: trim exception table in module

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 11:51:26 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	jdike@...toit.com, mingo@...e.hu, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/4] module: trim exception table in module_free()

On Tue, 26 May 2009 06:05:39 pm Amerigo Wang wrote:
>  void module_free(struct module *mod, void *module_region)
>  {
>  	vfree(module_region);
> -	/* FIXME: If module_region == mod->init_region, trim exception
> -	   table entries. */
> +	if (module_region == mod->module_init)
> +		mod->num_exentries = 0;
>  }

Hi Amerigo,

   This looks wrong.  The extable covers both init and core exception entries.   
We want to remove the ones in the module_init section.  The good news is that 
it's sorted, so they're either at the start or the end (except sparc 32).

  The bad news is that this is really a generic problem, and deserves a 
generic fix.  That's easy for archs which use the generic sort_extable(), but 
alpha, ia64 and sparc(32) will need to define their own trim_extable().

Thanks!
Rusty.
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