linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710292310040.3186@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:12:27 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86_64)

Thomas,

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> x86_64 fails to compile for me with this error:
> 
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.o
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:434: Error: symbol `vsysc2' is already defined
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> 
> The .config is attached. What's wrong?

Very recent gcc I guess ? Patch below should fix this.

Thanks,

     tglx

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index ad4005c..1a658a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_get_tz(struct timezone * tz)
 static __always_inline int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
 {
 	int ret;
-	asm volatile("vsysc2: syscall"
+	asm volatile(".globl vsysc2\n vsysc2: syscall"
 		: "=a" (ret)
 		: "0" (__NR_gettimeofday),"D" (tv),"S" (tz)
 		: __syscall_clobber );
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static __always_inline int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
 static __always_inline long time_syscall(long *t)
 {
 	long secs;
-	asm volatile("vsysc1: syscall"
+	asm volatile(".globl vsysc1\n vsysc1: syscall"
 		: "=a" (secs)
 		: "0" (__NR_time),"D" (t) : __syscall_clobber);
 	return secs;