linux-kernel - Re: Dynamic Debug broken on 2.6.35-rc3?

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:38:25 -0700
From:	Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@...newdream.net>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Dynamic Debug broken on 2.6.35-rc3?

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 23:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:21:40PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:24:16PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > it's this one:
> > > commit ff49d74ad383f54041378144ca1a229ee9aeaa59
> > > Author: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@...newdream.net>
> > > Date:   Sat Jul 3 13:07:35 2010 +1000
> > > 
> > > which touches same code than Jason's fix does.
> > > Possibly this patch also addresses (only parts of?) this problem?
> > > Jason: Do you mind having a look at the latest git version and review
> > > Yehuda's  and adjust your patch if still necessary.
> > 
> > So Yehuda's patch is meant to address this issue. I would still move the
> > remove code to free_module(), for the case that load_module() fails as
> > follows (on top of Yehuda's patch):
> 
> One of the known failures with this was a module that was just missing its exit
> function, but otherwise working. Is the patch likely to address this
> too? 
> 
I'm not sure about a known issue with a missing exit function. Looking
at the latest git, it doesn't seem there is a problem there. However,
there is an issue with the module init function returning an error.
Jason's fix on top of my patch solves it.

Yehuda

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