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[xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call ar

To: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call are not in init section
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> What about loadable modules?  Is their code never loaded into memory that
> used to be part of an init section?

Their code might _physically_ reside in a re-allocation of an init 
section, but will have a virtual address far away (and it would be the 
virtual address that you'd see if you took the address of a function).

                Linus


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