Re: linux-next: rr tree build failure

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 04:02:48 EST


On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 19:03 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc44x_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> .tmp_exports-asm.o: In function `__ksymtab_pci_alloc_consistent':
> (__ksymtab_sorted+0x2a30): undefined reference to `pci_alloc_consistent'
> .tmp_exports-asm.o: In function `__ksymtab_pci_free_consistent':
> (__ksymtab_sorted+0x2b70): undefined reference to `pci_free_consistent'
>
> Caused by the powerpc architecture EXPORTing static inlines (for 32 bit
> builds) interacting with changes in the rr tree.
>
> I have applied this patch for today:

Thanks. Our EXPORTs are bogus (probably leftovers) it seems. I'll dbl
check tomorrow but that looks like a patch I should pickup in powerpc
-next anyways.

Cheers,
Ben.

> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:54:13 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: do not export pci_alloc/free_consistent
>
> Since they are static inline functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c | 2 --
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
> index 07115d6..4254514 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
> @@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_4K_page);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(isa_io_base);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(isa_mem_base);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_dram_offset);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_alloc_consistent);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_free_consistent);
> #endif /* CONFIG_PCI */
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_thread);
> --
> 1.6.5.2
>


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