tree 378ee35adc486466c88c7423dbb0ecc6f027ef45
parent 83097aca8567a0bd593534853b71fe0fa9a75d69
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1219687826 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1219687826 -0700

[module] Don't let gcc inline load_module()

'load_module()' is a complex function that contains all the ELF section
logic, and inlining it is utterly insane.  But gcc will do it, simply
because there is only one call-site.  As a result, all the stack space
that is allocated for all the work to load the module will still be
active when we actually call the module init sequence, and the deep call
chain makes stack overflows happen.

And stack overflows are really hard to debug, because they not only
corrupt random pages below the stack, but also corrupt the thread_info
structure that is allocated under the stack.

In this case, Alan Brunelle reported some crazy oopses at bootup, after
loading the processor module that ends up doing complex ACPI stuff and
has quite a deep callchain.  This should fix it, and is the sane thing
to do regardless.

Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>