From 4665079cbb2a3e17de82f2ab2940b9f97f37d65e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:38:39 -0700 Subject: [NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=n With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section, thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before. Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot. Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes" for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS is not set to save more space in memory. The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section, as noticed by David, since the init section will have references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already done with the __init_refok. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 6c145d6e89de..0a4051fbd34e 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -709,6 +709,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char *tosec, /* Check for pattern 0 */ if ((strncmp(fromsec, ".text.init.refok", strlen(".text.init.refok")) == 0) || + (strncmp(fromsec, ".exit.text.refok", strlen(".exit.text.refok")) == 0) || (strncmp(fromsec, ".data.init.refok", strlen(".data.init.refok")) == 0)) return 1; -- cgit v1.2.3