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SubjectRe: section breakage on ppc64 (aka __devinitconst is broken by design)
On 02/03/2008 08:08 AM, Al Viro wrote:
>
> The reason why it didn't visibly bite us before is that usually __devinit...
> just expanded to nothing (unless you disable HOTPLUG, which requires
> EMBEDDED, which wasn't apparently common enough for ppc64 builds).
>
> Suggestions?

This ugly hackset was needed to get 2.6.24 to build with GCC 4.3. It would
be nice to get a real fix...


--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ struct kparam_array
void *elem;
};

+/* On some platforms relocations to global data cannot go into read-only
+ sections, 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 +80,7 @@ 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 } }
--- linux-2.6.24.noarch.orig/include/linux/module.h
+++ linux-2.6.24.noarch/include/linux/module.h
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@

#define MODULE_NAME_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))

+/* On some platforms relocations to global data cannot go into read-only
+ sections, so 'const' makes no sense and even causes compile failures
+ with some compilers. */
+#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) || defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC64)
+#define __ksym_const
+#else
+#define __ksym_const const
+#endif
+
struct kernel_symbol
{
unsigned long value;
@@ -192,7 +201,7 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbo
static const char __kstrtab_##sym[] \
__attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"))) \
= MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
- static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
+ static __ksym_const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
__attribute_used__ \
__attribute__((section("__ksymtab" sec), unused)) \
= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }

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