On 08.01.2015 01:58, Rusty Russell wrote:
Archs have been abusing module_free() to clean up their arch-specific
allocations. Since module_free() is also (ab)used by BPF and trace code,
let's keep it to simple allocations, and provide a hook called before
that.
This means that avr32, ia64, parisc and s390 no longer need to implement
their own module_free() at all. avr32 doesn't need module_finalize()
either.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
---
arch/avr32/kernel/module.c | 13 +------------
arch/ia64/kernel/module.c | 6 ++----
arch/parisc/kernel/module.c | 6 +-----
arch/s390/kernel/module.c | 10 +++-------
arch/tile/kernel/module.c | 2 +-
include/linux/moduleloader.h | 2 ++
kernel/module.c | 7 +++++++
7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
I successfully tested it on the parisc arch.
Acked-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Thanks!
Helge
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