[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20091001101727.GC6386@pengutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:17:27 +0200
From: Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/34] move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text
Hello,
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:45:18AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:31:06AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:12:18AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > > Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 10:28:35 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> > > > > The function virtrng_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
> > > > > it using __devexit.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > > > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> > > > > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> > > > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> > > > > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> > >
> > > FWIW
> > > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> > ok
> >
> > > > It seems that there are similar changes possible in other virtio drivers (e.g.
> > > > virtio_net).
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/896297/focus=896309
> >
> > > Yes, and more importantly drivers/virtio/virtio.c as well.
> > Hm, I don't see it:
> >
> > $ git grep -E '__(dev)?exit_p' linus/master:drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> >
> > $
> >
> > Well, you could add something, but adding __devexit is a noop for most
> > kernels. It matters only if you don't have CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
>
> And MODULE.
Well, discarding does not really depend on CONFIG_MODULE.
.devexit sections are only discarded from vmlinux (and not modules) and
only if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n. So my statement could be extended to:
Adding __devexit is a noop for most kernels. It matters only if you
don't have CONFIG_HOTPLUG and then only for code that is not compiled as
a module.
> > In this series I only addressed drivers that use __{,dev}exit and
> > __{,dev}exit_p inconsistenly. I.e. my script greps for __{,dev}exit_p
> > and checks the prototype of the wrapped function. I have another
> > script that does a similar check for platform_devices in general. This
> > one also notices if you have a __devexit function that isn't wrapped by
> > __devexit_p.
>
> Can we teach sparse about this?
I don't know much about sparse, better ask on linux-sparse.
> > So if you want to see drivers/virtio/virtio.c improving, send patches
> > yourself :-)
>
> Here's my reasoning:
> include/linux/virtio.h defines virtio_driver, and remove pointer
> there is only used on hot-unplug or module removal.
> This is the only reason I see that we can make device removal as devexit.
> So we can make all of them devexit then?
Exactly the same applies to platform_drivers. The remove callback is
only called if the driver is unregistered or the device is unbound.
But note it's not an error in general to use a .text function as remove
callback. E.g. take drivers/gpio/twl4030-gpio.c. gpio_twl4030_remove
is used in gpio_twl4030_probe which is defined using __devinit. So
using __devexit for gpio_twl4030_remove is wrong. (So there is a bug,
as gpio_twl4030_remove uses __devexit.) I didn't try, but as far as I
understand this will result in a compile error if the driver is built-in
with HOTPLUG=n.
Best regards
Uwe
--
Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König |
Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists