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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.17-rc2 - notifier chain problem?
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On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the steps. With that i was able to reproduce the problem and
> > i found the bug.
> >
> > While i go ahead and generate the patch, i wanted to hear if my
> > conclusion is correct.
> >
> > The problem is due to the fact that most notifier registrations
> > incorrectly use __devinitdata to define the callback structure, as in:
> >
> > static struct notifier_block __devinitdata hrtimers_nb = {
> > .notifier_call = hrtimer_cpu_notify,
> > };
> >
> > devinitdata'd data is not _expected to be available_ after the
> > initialization(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG is defined).
> >
> > I do not know how it was working until now :), anybody has a theory that
> > can explain it (or my conclusion is wrong) ?
>
> That sounds right. There are several __devinitdata notifier_blocks in the
> tree - please be sure to check them all.

Yes, I am covering all notifier blocks.

Another issue... many of the notifier callback functions are marked as
init calls (__cpuinit, __devinit etc.,) as in:

static int __cpuinit pageset_cpuup_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
unsigned long action,
void *hcpu)

I am generating a separate patch to take care of those too.
>
> btw, it'd be pretty trivial to add runtime checking for this sort of thing:
>
> int addr_in_init_section(void *addr)
> {
> return addr >= __init_begin && addr < __init_end;
> }

I will add this to kernel/sys.c, and put a BUG_ON to check for both the
notifier block and the callback function.

BTW, which header file you want me to export this through ?
>
> (x86-specific)
> (need to add __init_end to vmlinux.lds.S)

I see __init_end in arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S.

>
> then we could use that to check various things in various places...
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Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose....
- sekharan@us.ibm.com | .......you may get it.
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