linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] ARM: unwind extension

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Date:	Thu,  3 Jun 2010 15:17:19 +0300
From:	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
To:	linux@....linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@....com
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: unwind extension

The first two patches are simply preparation for the third, making it
effectively trivial, even though it's the only one with a concrete 
change in behaviour.

The origins of this patchset are the discovery that unwind and kmemleak
don't always cooperate well with each other - any allocation within 
an exit or devexit function causes kmemleak to look up symbols that 
aren't in any unwind table. This of course means that all WARN_ONs and
BUGs will suffer the same fate.

It could certainly be said that with a typical system the linked list
has grown too large to be practical as a container, and some improvements
could be made in that direction in the future.

Cheers,
Phil
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