Re: [PATCH -mm] kmemleak: Fix section mismatch in kmemleak.c

[Catalin Marinas]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 09:42 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> Impact: Section mismatch
> 
> The function kmemleak_alloc() is called from kernel allocators.
> kmemleak_alloc() calls log_early() but being log_early() marked as
> __init it causes following section mismatches. Being called from
> kernel allocators, kmemleak_allock() will be called after freeing up
> the init memory and log_early() will also called. So, unmarking __init
> from log_early() fixes the warning. If anything else please notice.

Thanks for the patch. There's nothing dangerous as kmemleak takes care
of not using the __init functions after it was initialised but I
couldn't find a way to free these functions/data and also avoid the
warning.

Anyway, that's fine as an interim patch but I think I'll just allocate
some pages dynamically for the early logging buffer so that we can free
them once initialised. I'll update the kmemleak branch sometime this
week.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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