Re: [PATCH v1 05/10] MIPS: MT: Move "weak" from vpe_run() declaration to definition

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Thu Oct 16 2014 - 09:49:32 EST


[+cc Stephen]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [+cc linux-mips]
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> When the "weak" attribute is on a declaration in a header file, every
>> definition where the header is included becomes weak, and the linker
>> chooses one definition based on link order (see 10629d711ed7 ("PCI: Remove
>> __weak annotation from pcibios_get_phb_of_node decl")).
>>
>> Move the "weak" attribute from the declaration to the default definition so
>> we always prefer a non-weak definition over the weak one, independent of
>> link order.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> arch/mips/include/asm/vpe.h | 2 +-
>> arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/vpe.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/vpe.h
>> index 7849f3978fea..80e70dbd1f64 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/vpe.h
>> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/vpe.h
>> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ void release_vpe(struct vpe *v);
>> void *alloc_progmem(unsigned long len);
>> void release_progmem(void *ptr);
>>
>> -int __weak vpe_run(struct vpe *v);
>> +int vpe_run(struct vpe *v);
>> void cleanup_tc(struct tc *tc);
>>
>> int __init vpe_module_init(void);
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c
>> index 2e003b11a098..0e5899a2cd96 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c
>> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c
>> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static int major;
>> static int hw_tcs, hw_vpes;
>>
>> /* We are prepared so configure and start the VPE... */
>> -int vpe_run(struct vpe *v)
>> +int __weak vpe_run(struct vpe *v)
>> {
>> unsigned long flags, val, dmt_flag;
>> struct vpe_notifications *notifier;
>>

Just FYI, this patch was in linux-next today, but I dropped it
temporarily because Fengguang's auto-builder found the following issue
with it:

All error/warnings:

arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c: In function 'vpe_release':
>> arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c:830:29: error: the address of 'vpe_run' will always evaluate as 'true' [-Werror=address]
if ((vpe_elfload(v) >= 0) && vpe_run) {
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
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