linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:00:41 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is
	in a module


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> > Nothing wrong with the idea, but how about a nice 
> > arch_maybe_module_addr() macro rather than ifdefs in module.c?
> 
> Everytime someone says that, I go crawl under my desk and weep quietly 
> for 10 minutes.

i've added your patch for testing purposes to tip/out-of-tree.

(An updated patch with the module.h change suggested by Rusty, as long 
as acked by Rusty could go into tip/core/locking and thus show up in 
linux-next as well.)

	Ingo
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