6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org
commit 6a4e59eeedc3018cb57722eecfcbb49431aeb05f upstream.
We have never used __memexit, __memexitdata, or __memexitconst.
These were unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 ------ include/linux/init.h | 3 --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 15 +++------------ 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ *(.ref.data) \ *(.data..shared_aligned) /* percpu related */ \ MEM_KEEP(init.data*) \ - MEM_KEEP(exit.data*) \ *(.data.unlikely) \ __start_once = .; \ *(.data.once) \ @@ -521,7 +520,6 @@ __init_rodata : AT(ADDR(__init_rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ *(.ref.rodata) \ MEM_KEEP(init.rodata) \ - MEM_KEEP(exit.rodata) \ } \ \ /* Built-in module parameters. */ \ @@ -574,7 +572,6 @@ *(.ref.text) \ *(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*) \ MEM_KEEP(init.text*) \ - MEM_KEEP(exit.text*) \
/* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same @@ -714,13 +711,10 @@ *(.exit.data .exit.data.*) \ *(.fini_array .fini_array.*) \ *(.dtors .dtors.*) \ - MEM_DISCARD(exit.data*) \ - MEM_DISCARD(exit.rodata*)
#define EXIT_TEXT \ *(.exit.text) \ *(.text.exit) \ - MEM_DISCARD(exit.text)
#define EXIT_CALL \ *(.exitcall.exit) --- a/include/linux/init.h +++ b/include/linux/init.h @@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ __latent_entropy #define __meminitdata __section(".meminit.data") #define __meminitconst __section(".meminit.rodata") -#define __memexit __section(".memexit.text") __exitused __cold notrace -#define __memexitdata __section(".memexit.data") -#define __memexitconst __section(".memexit.rodata")
/* For assembly routines */ #define __HEAD .section ".head.text","ax" --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo #define ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \ ".init.text", ".meminit.text" #define ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \ - ".exit.text", ".memexit.text" + ".exit.text"
#define ALL_PCI_INIT_SECTIONS \ ".pci_fixup_early", ".pci_fixup_header", ".pci_fixup_final", \ @@ -806,10 +806,9 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo ".pci_fixup_resume_early", ".pci_fixup_suspend"
#define ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS MEM_INIT_SECTIONS -#define ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS
#define ALL_INIT_SECTIONS INIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS -#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS +#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS
#define DATA_SECTIONS ".data", ".data.rel" #define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.*", ".sched.text", \ @@ -822,7 +821,6 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo #define MEM_INIT_SECTIONS ".meminit.*"
#define EXIT_SECTIONS ".exit.*" -#define MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS ".memexit.*"
#define ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, \ TEXT_SECTIONS, OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS @@ -832,7 +830,6 @@ enum mismatch { DATA_TO_ANY_INIT, TEXTDATA_TO_ANY_EXIT, XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT, - XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT, ANY_INIT_TO_ANY_EXIT, ANY_EXIT_TO_ANY_INIT, EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT, @@ -883,12 +880,6 @@ static const struct sectioncheck section .bad_tosec = { INIT_SECTIONS, NULL }, .mismatch = XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT, }, -/* Do not reference exit code/data from memexit code/data */ -{ - .fromsec = { ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS, NULL }, - .bad_tosec = { EXIT_SECTIONS, NULL }, - .mismatch = XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT, -}, /* Do not use exit code/data from init code */ { .fromsec = { ALL_INIT_SECTIONS, NULL }, @@ -1017,7 +1008,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *
/* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */ if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) && - match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS)) && + match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS)) && match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver"))) return 0;