Re: [GIT PULL] tracing fixes

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Sep 26 2009 - 12:10:57 EST


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:22:11PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Hm, yes, you are right, we missed that. I noticed the modpost
> dependency:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125326944223679&w=2
>
> but thought that it's safe and didnt notice that dangling
> module_layout() reference and the build warning it generates in the
> kernel.
>
> I _think_ the patch below should do the trick - module_layout() appears
> to be an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols listed in its
> argument list so that it gets a proper signature. Removing the marker
> symbol should thus be the solution, but i'm not 100% sure. Thoughts?
>
> Ingo

Looks good to me, Linus?

> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index b6ee424..392eb3d 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2947,7 +2947,6 @@ void module_layout(struct module *mod,
> struct modversion_info *ver,
> struct kernel_param *kp,
> struct kernel_symbol *ks,
> - struct marker *marker,
> struct tracepoint *tp)
> {
> }
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