From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932302AbWDYUig (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932305AbWDYUig (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:38:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60134 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932302AbWDYUif (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:38:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Stern cc: Chandra Seetharaman , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call are not in init section In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan Stern wrote: > > What about loadable modules? Is their code never loaded into memory that > used to be part of an init section? Their code might _physically_ reside in a re-allocation of an init section, but will have a virtual address far away (and it would be the virtual address that you'd see if you took the address of a function). Linus