Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module initialization

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx> 06.07.09 17:55 >>>
>On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Why? .*exit sections deal with device/memory/CPU hot remove, which is
>> orthogonal to module unload.
>
>For the core kernel, the .devinit sections are currently being squashed 
>into either the .data section or the .init.data section depending on 
>whether hotplug is enabled using the vmlinux linker scripts.  Can we use 
>the same approach for modules (i.e. have a module linker script that does 
>this)?  It seems that would avoid having two duplicate mechanisms for 
>doing the same thing, one in the module loader and one in the core 
>kernel's linker scripts.

I'd have to play with this a little, as I'm not sure ld -r can actually do what
you're suggesting.

Jan

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