Re: [PATCH v3] pci: spear: Drop __initdata from spear13xx_pcie_driver

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2015-02-20 13:06 GMT+03:00 Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 02/19/2015 07:41 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> spear13xx_pcie_driver.driver is allocated in text.init section
>> and then the pointer to it is passed futher. This patch is to avoid
>> crashes like the following, when freed memory is used.
>>
>> Also, __init has been dropped from the probe() function referred from the struct
>> and all called functions.
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes from v2:
>>  - Drop __init from all probing functions to allow deferred probing.
>> Changes from v1:
>>  - Use platform_driver_probe instead of platform_driver_register to make linker happy.
>>
>>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c | 2 +-
>>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-spear13xx.c  | 6 +++---
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
>> index df781cd..5b8a056 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
>> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops msi_domain_ops = {
>>       .map = dw_pcie_msi_map,
>>  };
>>
>> -int __init dw_pcie_host_init(struct pcie_port *pp)
>> +int dw_pcie_host_init(struct pcie_port *pp)
>>  {
>
> we need to fix up the other pci drivers which use dw_pcie_host_init(), too.
>
> pci-exynos, pci-imx6, pci-keystone and pci-layerscape.
>
> Could you prepare a patch with above drivers included?

What is wrong with them? To call ordinary function from __init section
is perfectly legal.



-- 
With best regards,
Matwey V. Kornilov.
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
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