Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:43:33 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | [patch 43/76] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures |
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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ---------------------
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
[upstream commit: 91d35dd9]
On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where param_set/get are local functions.
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> [chrisw@sous-sol.org: backport to 2.6.24.3] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ struct kparam_array void *elem; }; +/* On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 relocations to global data cannot go into + read-only sections (which is part of respective UNIX ABI on these + platforms). So 'const' makes no sense and even causes compile failures + with some compilers. */ +#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) || defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC64) +#define __moduleparam_const +#else +#define __moduleparam_const const +#endif + /* This is the fundamental function for registering boot/module parameters. perm sets the visibility in sysfs: 000 means it's not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's @@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ struct kparam_array static int __param_perm_check_##name __attribute__((unused)) = \ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) < 0 || (perm) > 0777 || ((perm) & 2)); \ static const char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \ - static struct kernel_param const __param_##name \ + static struct kernel_param __moduleparam_const __param_##name \ __attribute_used__ \ __attribute__ ((unused,__section__ ("__param"),aligned(sizeof(void *)))) \ = { __param_str_##name, perm, set, get, { arg } } --
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