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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:01:07 +0000
From:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, carmelo73@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kyle@...artin.ca, deller@....de,
	jejb@...isc-linux.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by the
 kernel (__ksymtab)

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:15 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>   
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:28 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:27 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:23:20 am Alex Chiang wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi Alan, Rusty,
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> In the meantime, while Alan is deciding the proper way to fix
>>>>>>> this, would it be possible to drop the offending patch series
>>>>>>> from linux-next?
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Done.  That takes the pressure off Alan, and makes sure he has time to get
>>>>>> it right.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> That probably suits us on parisc too.  I just checked out our build in
>>>>> linux-next: we don't pass __modpost ... it looks like we have all the
>>>>> module symbols undefined.  Will investigate more.
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I think parisc wants P'printk where ia64 uses @fptr(printk).
>>>>
>>>> It may also need ".import printk,code" or similar.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I think if you have to make modpost architecture specific, there's
>>> something a bit wrong in the patch series.
>>>
>>> I can confirm that reverting this particular patch allows the parisc
>>> build to work again.  It still won't boot because module symbols aren't
>>> resolved.
>>>
>>> James
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes, the series as a whole relies on that patch.  Rusty pulled the 
>> series from linux-next (thanks rusty!).
>>     
>
> Not according to current linux-next:
>
> jejb@ion> git log next-20091125|grep -3 'sort the list of symbols'
> Author: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
> Date:   Sat Nov 7 21:03:56 2009 +0000
>
>     kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by the kernel (__ksymtab)
>     
>     modpost of vmlinux.o now extracts the ksymtab sections and outputs
>     sorted versions of them as .tmp_exports-asm.S.  These sorted sections
>
> Could we please have this removed so we can resume our testing of next?
>   

Note to Rusty: the patches which depend on this are

"module: speed up find_symbol() using binary search on the builtin 
symbol tables"

and

"modpost: fix modules on ia64 - use @fptr() on exported function symbols"

(the second one needs to be rewritten anyway, because -

> We don't need there to be no arch changes ... but we do need any arch
> specificity confined to arch specific files.
>
> James
>   

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