Re: next-20081106: undefined reference to `__per_cpu_start'

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:15:07PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> > On blackfin-BF526-EZBRD and other blackfins:
> >
> >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `cpu_alloc_init':
> > (.init.text+0x1486): undefined reference to `__per_cpu_start'
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `cpu_alloc_init':
> > (.init.text+0x148c): undefined reference to `__per_cpu_start'
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `cpu_alloc_init':
> > (.init.text+0x1492): undefined reference to `__per_cpu_end'
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `cpu_alloc_init':
> > (.init.text+0x1496): undefined reference to `__per_cpu_end'
> 
> Any contigencies for __per_cpu_start/end in your blackfin vmlinux.lds.h?
> That is where these symbols are defined
> 
> Or did you use generic percpu support and set
> CONFIG_HAVE_ZERO_BASED_PER_CPU?

References are coming from PERCPU_AREA_SIZE.

This works, but I have no idea if this correct:

--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST(type, name)				\
 	DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)
 
+#define PERCPU_AREA_SIZE 0
+
 #endif /* !CONFIG_SMP */
 
 #define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)
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