On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:57:35AM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote: [..] > +/* Merges all the PT_NOTE headers into one. */ > +static int __init merge_note_headers_elf32(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz, > + char **notesegptr, size_t *notesegsz, > + struct list_head *vc_list) > +{ Given that we are copying notes in second kernel, we are not using vc_list in merge_note_headers() any more. So remove vc_list from paramter list here. For local parameters we could simply use notes_buf (instead of notesgptr) and notes_sz (instead of notesgsz). It seems mroe readable. Thanks Vivek