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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-07-16 09:02:06 +1000
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2010-07-16 09:02:06 +1000
commit8a1476375ed782919309567e42539db34db87e05 (patch)
treef613ebfd821cc27dd07e83ab8d581d2d41f12459 /kernel
parent96c569fe376f80899adaed765bc57f4f0f4a0be9 (diff)
module: cleanup comments, remove noinline
On my (32-bit x86) machine, sys_init_module() uses 124 bytes of stack once load_module() is inlined. This effectively reverts ffb4ba76 which inlined it due to stack pressure. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 192a9add0c87..fbc84e3584b1 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Henderson
- Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002 Rusty Russell IBM.
+ Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002, 2010 Rusty Russell IBM.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -2521,12 +2521,14 @@ static void module_deallocate(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
static int post_relocation(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
{
+ /* Sort exception table now relocations are done. */
sort_extable(mod->extable, mod->extable + mod->num_exentries);
/* Copy relocated percpu area over. */
percpu_modcopy(mod, (void *)info->sechdrs[info->index.pcpu].sh_addr,
info->sechdrs[info->index.pcpu].sh_size);
+ /* Setup kallsyms-specific fields. */
add_kallsyms(mod, info);
/* Arch-specific module finalizing. */
@@ -2535,7 +2537,7 @@ static int post_relocation(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
/* Allocate and load the module: note that size of section 0 is always
zero, and we rely on this for optional sections. */
-static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
+static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
unsigned long len,
const char __user *uargs)
{
@@ -2596,6 +2598,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
goto free_arch_cleanup;
}
+ /* Mark state as coming so strong_try_module_get() ignores us. */
mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
/* Now sew it into the lists so we can get lockdep and oops
@@ -2623,10 +2626,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+ /* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp, NULL);
if (err < 0)
goto unlink;
+ /* Link in to syfs. */
err = mod_sysfs_setup(mod, &info, mod->kp, mod->num_kp);
if (err < 0)
goto unlink;
@@ -2635,9 +2640,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
kfree(info.strmap);
free_copy(&info);
- trace_module_load(mod);
-
/* Done! */
+ trace_module_load(mod);
return mod;
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