Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:49:10 +0100 | From | Evan Lavelle <> | Subject | Driver crash when changing a function from external to internal linkage |
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I have an ISR which schedules a tasklet to handle an interrupt.
The tasklet is function A, which calls function B, which calls function C.
When all of A, B, and C have extern linkage, there's no problem. However, when B is declared static, the driver crashes, and hangs up the machine. The driver only crashes if C contains any code; if it's just an empty function then there's no problem.
Any thoughts on what the problem is here? This is x86_32/PAE, 2.6.18-53.el5PAE, gcc 4.1.2 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46).
Thanks -
Evan
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