The patch titled
revert gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
revert-gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch
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Subject: revert gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 -
lib/kobject.c | 43 -------------------------------
2 files changed, 45 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~revert-gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~revert-gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ SECTIONS
__tracedata_end = .;
}
- _sdata = .; /* End of text section */
-
RODATA
/* writeable */
diff -puN lib/kobject.c~revert-gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used lib/kobject.c
--- a/lib/kobject.c~revert-gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used
+++ a/lib/kobject.c
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
-#include <asm-generic/sections.h>
/**
* populate_dir - populate directory with attributes.
@@ -123,46 +121,6 @@ char *kobject_get_path(struct kobject *k
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_get_path);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-static int ptr_in_range(void *ptr, void *start, void *end)
-{
- /*
- * This should hopefully get rid of causing warnings
- * if the architecture did not set one of the section
- * variables up.
- */
- if (start >= end)
- return 0;
-
- if ((ptr >= start) && (ptr < end))
- return 1;
- return 0;
-}
-
-static void verify_dynamic_kobject_allocation(struct kobject *kobj)
-{
- if (ptr_in_range(kobj, &_sdata[0], &_edata[0]))
- goto warn;
- if (ptr_in_range(kobj, &__bss_start[0], &__bss_stop[0]))
- goto warn;
- return;
-warn:
- pr_debug("---- begin silly warning ----\n");
- pr_debug("This is a janitorial warning, not a kernel bug.\n");
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT
- print_symbol("The kobject at, or inside %s is not dynamically allocated.\n",
- (unsigned long)kobj);
-#endif
- pr_debug("kobjects must be dynamically allocated, not static\n");
- /* dump_stack(); */
- pr_debug("---- end silly warning ----\n");
-}
-#else
-static void verify_dynamic_kobject_allocation(struct kobject *kobj)
-{
-}
-#endif
-
/**
* kobject_init - initialize object.
* @kobj: object in question.
@@ -172,7 +130,6 @@ void kobject_init(struct kobject * kobj)
if (!kobj)
return;
WARN_ON(atomic_read(&kobj->kref.refcount));
- verify_dynamic_kobject_allocation(kobj);
kref_init(&kobj->kref);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kobj->entry);
init_waitqueue_head(&kobj->poll);
_
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