Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] kexec: Remove "weak" annotations from headers

From: Baoquan He
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 05:29:24 EST


Hi Bjorn,

There are changes I have made to solve 5-level conflict with
kexec/kdump and also interface unification task, they will involve x86
64 only changes on these functions, I don't think we need remove them if
without any obvious impact or error reported.

Thanks
Baoquan

On 04/13/18 at 11:08am, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> in recent patches AKASHI [1] and I [2] made some changes to the declarations
> you are touching and already removed some of the weak statements. The patches
> got accepted on linux-next and will (hopefully) be pulled for v4.17. So you
> should prepare for some merge conflicts. Nevertheless three weak statements
> still remain (arch_kexec_walk_mem & arch_kexec_apply_relocations*) so your
> patch still makes totally sense.
>
> Thanks
> Philipp
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/6/201
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/21/278
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:23:29 -0500
> Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Weak" annotations in header files are error-prone because they make
> > every definition weak. Remove them from include/linux/kexec.h.
> >
> > These were introduced in two separate commits, so this is in two
> > patches so they can be easily backported to stable kernels (some of
> > them date back to v4.3 and one only goes back to v4.10).
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Bjorn Helgaas (2):
> > kexec: Remove "weak" from kexec_file function declarations
> > kexec: Remove "weak" from arch_kexec_walk_mem() declaration
> >
> >
> > include/linux/kexec.h | 24 ++++++++++++------------
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
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