Commit be02a186 authored Feb 17, 2015 by Jan Kiszka Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 17, 2015

kernel/module.c: do not inline do_init_module()



This provides a reliable breakpoint target, required for automatic symbol
loading via the gdb helper command 'lx-symbols'.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 66051720

kernel/module.c

+7 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3025,8 +3025,13 @@ static void do_free_init(struct rcu_head *head)
		kfree(m);
		}

		/* This is where the real work happens */
		static int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
		/*
		* This is where the real work happens.
		*
		* Keep it uninlined to provide a reliable breakpoint target, e.g. for the gdb
		* helper command 'lx-symbols'.
		*/
		static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
		{
		int ret = 0;
		struct mod_initfree *freeinit;