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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions
From:       Dawson Engler <engler () csl ! Stanford ! EDU>
Date:       2001-05-31 22:06:02
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> These are actual (performance) bugs.
> Patch is appended.

Thanks for the quick feedback!

> BTW: I don't if you did so already, but if you extended the checker to
> find functions which are only called from __init functions, but not
> marked __init themselves, you'd most likely find lots more performance
> bugs of this kind.

I haven't hacked this in --- I was waiting to get a feel for how
important the checker was before spending too much time on it.  I agree
with your intuition that there would be a lot of these cases ;-)
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