Kronos wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm playing with kernel 2.5.47. XFS support is compiled as module and at
> boot time, while mounting /home, I get this:
>
> insmod /lib/modules/2.5.47/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o failed
>
> Then, trying to modprobe xfs by hand:
>
> /lib/modules/2.5.47/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o: unresolved symbol page_states__per_cpu
> /lib/modules/2.5.47/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.5.47/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.5.47/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o: insmod xfs failed
>
You'll need to disable module symbol versioning, or apply this
patch from Rusty:
include/asm-generic/percpu.h | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- 25/include/asm-generic/percpu.h~genksyms-fix Wed Nov 13 00:57:06 2002
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-generic/percpu.h Wed Nov 13 00:57:06 2002
@@ -35,4 +35,10 @@ extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR
#define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(var##__per_cpu)
#define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(var##__per_cpu)
+/* Genksyms can't follow the percpu declaration. Give it a fake one. */
+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__
+#undef DEFINE_PER_CPU
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name) type name##__per_cpu
+#endif /*__GENKSYMS__*/
+
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_PERCPU_H_ */
_
-
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