linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [171/197] module: fix __module_ref

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Date:	Wed, 12 May 2010 15:14:34 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	stable@...nel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [171/197] module: fix __module_ref_addr()

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:29:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:24:13PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On 04/28/2010 06:55 PM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:20:56 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > >> Can you try reverting commit c8d52465f95c4187871f8e65666c07806ca06d41 and see if
> > >> it helps ?
> > > 
> > > It doesn't. The produced code is identical.
> > > 
> > >> If you have other compiler versions handy, that would also be helpful to see if
> > >> the problem is specific to the gcc version you are using.
> > > 
> > > Tried 4.5.0, the same problem (at least looking at the produced assembler
> > > code, I haven't booted the kernel, but it looks very similar to 4.3.3).
> > 
> > I wrote on the bugzilla but this is not a compiler bug but the -stable
> > patch shouldn't have been applied only to 2.6.33.  Not 2.6.32.  This
> > is because till 2.6.32, ia64 hadn't been converted to dynamic percpu
> > allocator, so its static and dynamic percpu areas were separate and
> > the per_cpu_ptr() wouldn't do the offsetting the module code expects
> > there.  So, please revert the patch from 2.6.32.
> 
> Ah crap, I missed that.  I'll go revert it from .32 now, sorry about
> that.

And of course, I forgot to do that before releasing the next .32 kernel.
It will be in the one after this one.  bah.

greg k-h
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