Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

From: Dawson Engler (engler@csl.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 17:06:02 EST


> 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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