linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module initialization

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Date:	Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:04:03 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	<tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Tim Abbott" <tabbott@....edu>, <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@...ba.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module
	 initialization

>>> Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> 01.07.09 07:22 >>>
>On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:26 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Just like .init, these sections are supposed to be unneeded after init,
>> and modpost warns about improper section references anyway.
>
>Tim Abbot had a section renaming patch, for -ffunction-sections.  Can we kill 
>two birds with one stone and have a unique string for init sections, and 
>another for exit sections?

Not sure, would need to see what that patch does first. And then, the patch
here doesn't do any renaming.

>> Likewise
>> for .*exit which, other than .exit, aren't needed for the module unload
>> path.
>
>Currently true, but I can't see that being true in general.

Why? .*exit sections deal with device/memory/CPU hot remove, which is
orthogonal to module unload.

Jan

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