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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] NTFS 2.0.7a for Linux 2.4.18
At 03:26 12/05/02, mcp@linux-systeme.de wrote:
>Hi Pawel,
>
> >Backported NTFS 2.0.7 from 2.5.x to 2.4.18 is available from linux-ntfs
> >project page:
>i've tried this, have a look:

I just had a look at the ntfs patch. Pawel has removed all preemption code
from ntfs. This means that if you use the new ntfs with 2.4.x + preempt
your kernel will cause MASSIVE in-memory data corruption. So in a way I am
very glad it didn't compile in the first place... Saved you a lot of grief.

From the below errors it is very clear that it is the preempt patch
interacting badly with the ntfs patch and breaking the compile. I have made
a few suggestions to Pawel on how to add preemption to ntfs again but if
you want to do it yourself, basically look at the 2.5.x new ntfs driver and
grep for "preempt" (in fs/ntfs/*.[hc]) and wherever you find it in 2.5.x
put it into 2.4.x, too. Basically only fs/ntfs/compress.c uses preempt_*()
so it is very easy to do this. Then there is the compilation problem below.
I suspect preempt itself is not including a header file somewhere, and you
get away with this when ntfs is not present because it just so happens that
all other code adds the right #include. In 2.4.x vanilla "current" used to
be defined in asm/current.h which is usually included via linux/sched.h. So
at a guess you could fix compilation of fs/ntfs/debug.c by adding #include
<linux/sched.h> to the list of includes in debug.c.

Best regards,

Anton


>cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/include -Wall
>-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
>-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -pipe
>-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE
>-DNTFS_VERSION=\"2.0.7a\" -DDEBUG -DKBUILD_BASENAME=debug -c -o debug.o
>debug.c
>debug.c: In function `__ntfs_warning':
>debug.c:58: `current' undeclared (first use in this function)
>debug.c:58: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>debug.c:58: for each function it appears in.)
>debug.c:68: warning: implicit declaration of function `preempt_schedule'
>debug.c: In function `__ntfs_error':
>debug.c:98: `current' undeclared (first use in this function)
>debug.c: In function `__ntfs_debug':
>debug.c:126: `current' undeclared (first use in this function)
>make[2]: *** [debug.o] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/fs/ntfs'
>make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ntfs] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/fs'
>make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2
>
>Yes, 2.4.18 + preempt and some other additional stuff.
>NTFS is a Module, happs with/without selecting debug feature in kernel
>config.
>
>Kind regards,
> Marc
>
>
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