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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:06:36 +0200
From:	Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@...sol.com>
To:	"Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@....msu.ru>
CC:	mohit.kumar@...com, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pci: spear: Drop __initdata from spear13xx_pcie_driver

On 02/19/2015 07:41 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> spear13xx_pcie_driver.driver is allocated in text.init section
> and then the pointer to it is passed futher. This patch is to avoid
> crashes like the following, when freed memory is used.
> 
> Also, __init has been dropped from the probe() function referred from the struct
> and all called functions.
> 

<snip>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@....msu.ru>
> ---
> Changes from v2:
>  - Drop __init from all probing functions to allow deferred probing.
> Changes from v1:
>  - Use platform_driver_probe instead of platform_driver_register to make linker happy.
> 
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-spear13xx.c  | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> index df781cd..5b8a056 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops msi_domain_ops = {
>  	.map = dw_pcie_msi_map,
>  };
>  
> -int __init dw_pcie_host_init(struct pcie_port *pp)
> +int dw_pcie_host_init(struct pcie_port *pp)
>  {

we need to fix up the other pci drivers which use dw_pcie_host_init(), too.

pci-exynos, pci-imx6, pci-keystone and pci-layerscape.

Could you prepare a patch with above drivers included?

<snip>

-- 
regards,
Stan
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