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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 09:01:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 09:01:05 -0700
commit2c9871de0ae89a0e2c365ea6e277135fe031d8b4 (patch)
tree1b5a05333f53c9eebb4d89924944201ec6e1f400 /include/linux
parentdc2af6a6bcf3abdf44ac545759a6547dfe12070e (diff)
parentffa9f12a41ec117207e8d953f90b9c179546c8d7 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer. module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2) module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 1c755b2f937..482efc865ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
*/
#define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license)
-/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */
+/*
+ * Author(s), use "Name <email>" or just "Name", for multiple
+ * authors use multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements/lines.
+ */
#define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author)
/* What your module does. */
@@ -308,10 +311,14 @@ struct module
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
- /* We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms. */
- Elf_Sym *symtab;
- unsigned int num_symtab;
- char *strtab;
+ /*
+ * We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms.
+ * The core_* fields below are temporary, loader-only (they
+ * could really be discarded after module init).
+ */
+ Elf_Sym *symtab, *core_symtab;
+ unsigned int num_symtab, core_num_syms;
+ char *strtab, *core_strtab;
/* Section attributes */
struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs;