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)

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 1c755b2f937d..482efc865acf 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;