linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FRV: Fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:52:07 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jdi@....org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FRV: Fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:48:20 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> 
> Fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms to indicate that the symbol
> does not reside in the small-data storage space, and so may not be accessed
> relative to the small data base register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> ---
> 
>  kernel/kallsyms.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> index 474219a..fa84b83 100644
> --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
>  
>  /* These will be re-linked against their real values during the second link stage */
>  extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[] __attribute__((weak));
> -extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms __attribute__((weak));
> +extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms
> +__nongpreldata __attribute__((weak));

umm, this makes Linux an frv-only operating system...

>  extern const u8 kallsyms_names[] __attribute__((weak));
>  
>  extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __attribute__((weak));
-
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