Re: Stap is translating to functions in __exit sections...and later module load fails

[Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugeniy dot meshcheryakov at googlemail dot com>]

13 ÐÐÐÑÐÑ 2006 Ð 14:02 -0700 Stone, Joshua I ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ(-ÐÐ):
> The translator blacklist tries to avoid such functions by checking the
> section name -- anything within a section beginning with '.exit.' (e.g.,
> .exit.text) is blacklisted, and thus won't match a function("*").
> 
> Does IA64 do something different with the __exit sections?
It is strange that translator sees it at all. The code is

static void __exit
exit_pfm_fs(void)
{
        unregister_filesystem(&pfm_fs_type);
        mntput(pfmfs_mnt);
}

and this function is never used...

-- 
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

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