what does this do ?

horseriver horserivers at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 23:50:49 EST 2013


On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 09:27:45PM -0800, Dave Hylands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:29 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi:
> >
> >   In kernel code . some function is defined  by
>  __attribute__((__section__(".initcall" level ".init")))
> >
> >   what does this do ?
> 
> It puts the address of the function in a linker section named
> .initcallX.init where X is replaced by the level.
> 
> These functions are called in order to initialize various subsystems and
> drivers during kernel bootup.

  Thanks!

  Another question:
  
  __attribute__((regparm(3)))    ;  what does this do ?



 
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> Dave Hylands
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