Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:31:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: RE: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
 kernel/fork.c:385
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On Wed, 30 May 2007, Luck, Tony wrote:

> 
> > `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: 
> > defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> 
> 
> This one is a fatal error ... the code is trying to call a function
> that has been marked __exit in a driver that has been built-in, instead
> of as a module.  Since a builtin driver can never be unloaded, the kernel
> has thrown away all the __exit routines (at link time).
> 
> The error message appears less than helpful in tracking down which
> routine in which driver is the problem though.

Right. I have no idea where to look. The function has no name? Or is the 
segment .exit.text referenced by namne in .init.text?


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