Re: fix get_wchan() FIXME wrt. order of functions

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:55:26AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> This addresses the issue with get_wchan() that the various functions
> acting as scheduling-related primitives are not, in fact, contiguous
> in the text segment. It creates an ELF section for scheduling primitives
> to be placed in, and places currently-detected (i.e. skipped during stack
> decoding) scheduling primitives and others like io_schedule() and down(),
> which are currently missed by get_wchan() code, into this section also.
> The net effects are more reliability of get_wchan()'s results and the
> new ability, made use of by this code, to arbitrarily place scheduling
> primitives in the source code without disturbing get_wchan()'s accuracy.
> Suggestions by Arnd Bergmann and Matthew Wilcox regarding reducing the
> invasiveness of the patch were incorporated during prior rounds of review.
> I've at least tried to sweep all arches in this patch.
> vs. 2.6.5-rc3. Rediffing vs. -mm would be easy for me.

Brown paper bag patch. Should fix the missing relocations you saw.


Index: sched-2.6.5-rc3/arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
===================================================================
--- sched-2.6.5-rc3.orig/arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c	2004-03-31 18:34:02.000000000 -0800
+++ sched-2.6.5-rc3/arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c	2004-04-01 03:13:48.000000000 -0800
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
  * value..
  */
 asm(
-".section sched.text\n"
+".section .sched.text\n"
 ".align 4\n"
 ".globl __down_failed\n"
 "__down_failed:\n\t"
-
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