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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:14:55 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] jump label: Fix module __init section race

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:23:19PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 08:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 16:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > --- a/kernel/jump_label.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
> > > > @@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ void jump_label_update(unsigned long key, enum jump_label_type type)
> > > >  			count = e_module->nr_entries;
> > > >  			iter = e_module->table;
> > > >  			while (count--) {
> > > > -				if (kernel_text_address(iter->code))
> > > > +				if (iter->key &&
> > > > +						kernel_text_address(iter->code))
> > > 
> > > Peter, I know you hated this, but the alternative is either:
> > > 
> > > 				if (iter->key &&
> > > 				    kernel_text_address(iter->code))
> > > 
> > > or break 80 chars. All three seem bad (although I don't mind breaking 
> > > 80 chars for this). But I'll leave it for now.
> > 
> > No, the proper alternative is to move the body of the iteration into a 
> > jump_label_update_entry() inline function ...
> > 
> > Nobody is forcing you to start yet another iteration 4 indentations 
> > deep. We have functions for a reason.
> 
> Jason,
> 
> Could you send me another version of this patch with the second
> iteration wrapped in a function.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 

sure. I going to re-spin this whole series - there are a bunch of
changes. Hopefully, I can drop the whole register/unregister notion as
Peter suggested.

thanks,

-Jason
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