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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812012240080.18893@blonde.anvils>
Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:47:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	penberg@...helsinki.fi, rjw@...k.pl, miles.lane@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, htejun@...il.com, vegard.nossum@...il.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, arjan@...radead.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc6-git1 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request
 at ffff8800be8b0019

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:34:27 +0000 (GMT)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- 2.6.28-rc6/include/linux/ftrace.h	2008-11-02 23:17:56.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux/include/linux/ftrace.h	2008-11-27 16:39:26.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ ftrace_init_module(unsigned long *start,
> >  
> >  struct boot_trace {
> >  	pid_t			caller;
> > -	char			func[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> > +	char			func[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
> >  	int			result;
> >  	unsigned long long	duration;		/* usecs */
> >  	ktime_t			calltime;
> 
> The ftrace.h change causes this:
> 
> In file included from arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c:14:
> include/linux/ftrace.h:234: error: 'MODULE_NAME_LEN' undeclared here (not in a function)

Damn, I'm very sorry for landing you with that discovery.

> 
> The fault really lies with include/linux/kallsyms.h, I think:
> 
> #define KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN (sizeof("%s+%#lx/%#lx [%s]") + (KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1) + \
>                          2*(BITS_PER_LONG*3/10) + (MODULE_NAME_LEN - 1) + 1)

MODULE_NAME_LEN is a big clue I completely ignored.

> 
> but it doesn't include module.h, so it requires that users of this
> header perform the include.
> 
> But I'm a bit reluctant to include module.h from kallsyms.h because
> kallsyms.h is a simple low-level thing:

Yes, I'd be a bit reluctant too, particularly at this stage.

> 
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/stddef.h>
> 
> and it wouldn't surprise me if module.h was including kallsyms.h by
> some means.
> 
> So for now I'll try including module.h from ftrace.c.  It would be nice
> to fix the kallsyms.h dependency..

You ended up choosing ftrace.h, which seems more to the point.

Thank you for doing the work I should never have given you.

Hugh
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