Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call are not in init section

[Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > 2) Unrelated to this patch: If the _code_ section is never reallocated
> > or reused, what is the purpose of putting _code_ in the init section ?
> > Only to make sure that the init calls are called in order ?
> 
> No, the code section is re-used, it's just never re-used for any other 
> code (since we don't generate code on the fly). So if you pass in a 
> function pointer, you know that if it's in the init section, it means that 
> init-code that was discarded.

What about loadable modules?  Is their code never loaded into memory that
used to be part of an init section?

Alan Stern