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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 0d8a5a4a789d..0d385be682db 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" - default n + depends on UNDEFINED help The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal references from one section to another section. @@ -90,19 +90,19 @@ config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH most likely result in an oops. In the code functions and variables are annotated with __init, __devinit etc. (see full list in include/linux/init.h) - which result in the code/data being placed in specific sections. - The section mismatch anaylsis are always done after a full - kernel build but enabling this options will in addition + which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. + The section mismatch analysis is always done after a full + kernel build but enabling this option will in addition do the following: - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc When inlining a function annotated __init in a non-init - function we would loose the section information and thus + function we would lose the section information and thus the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. - This options tell gcc to inline less but will also + This option tells gcc to inline less but will also result in a larger kernel. - Run the section mismatch analysis for each module/built-in.o When we run the section mismatch analysis on vmlinux.o we - looses valueable information about where the mismatch was + lose valueble information about where the mismatch was introduced. Running the analysis for each module/built-in.o file will tell where the mismatch happens much closer to the diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 1d63ead1815e..d784daeb8571 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ struct kobject *kobject_create(void) * @name: the name for the kset * @parent: the parent kobject of this kobject, if any. * - * This function creates a kset structure dynamically and registers it + * This function creates a kobject structure dynamically and registers it * with sysfs. When you are finished with this structure, call * kobject_put() and the structure will be dynamically freed when * it is no longer being used. |