Re: multiple definition of `show_mem'

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 18:23:00 EST


On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:

> Hello,
>
> current mainline (v2.6.38-7210-gb81a618) on ARM/mxs has the following build failure:
>
> > lib/lib.a(show_mem.o): In function `show_mem':
> > .../linux-2.6/lib/show_mem.c:67: multiple definition of `show_mem'
> > arch/arm/mm/built-in.o:.../linux-2.6/arch/arm/mm/init.c:82: first defined here
> > make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
>
> After reverting these patches the kernel compiles...
>
> cbf978bfb12d7deca97d7333f65eda0381a072de oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on page alloc failure
> 29423e77c06cee7d4e335ef4a7cbd949da978c91 oom: suppress show_mem() for many nodes in irq context on page alloc failure
> ddd588b5dd55f14320379961e47683db4e4c1d90 oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill
>
> No time to boot the kernel, though.
>

Sorry about that, Marc. I have a patch at

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130100511521954

which should fix the issue for you (and I tested it with my arm cross
compiler).
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