Re: [PATCH] introduce __init_exit function annotation

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote:
> Introduce __init_exit, which is useful ie. for drivers that call
> cleanup functions when they fail in __init functions.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/init.h |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: work-powerpc.git/include/linux/init.h
> ===================================================================
> --- work-powerpc.git.orig/include/linux/init.h
> +++ work-powerpc.git/include/linux/init.h
> @@ -60,8 +60,10 @@
>  
>  #ifdef MODULE
>  #define __exit		__attribute__ ((__section__(".exit.text")))
> +#define __init_exit
>  #else
>  #define __exit		__attribute_used__ __attribute__ ((__section__(".exit.text")))
> +#define __init_exit	__init
>  #endif
>  
>  /* For assembly routines */

This doesn't work on architectures like i386 where __exit code is
discarded at runtime.

cu
Adrian

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