linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/mm] Generic page_is_ram: use _

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:24:23 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mm] Generic page_is_ram: use __weak

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 01:00:51 GMT tip-bot for Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Commit-ID:  e52730071567ec5b6f57e21d6693b112e01e1d0e
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e52730071567ec5b6f57e21d6693b112e01e1d0e
> Author:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:31:19 -0800
> Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> CommitDate: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:58:17 -0800
> 
> Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
> 
> Use __weak instead of __attribute__((weak)).
> 
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> ---
>  kernel/resource.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> index b4d637a..e68cd74 100644
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int __is_ram(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, void *arg)
>   * This generic page_is_ram() returns true if specified address is
>   * registered as "System RAM" in iomem_resource list.
>   */
> -int __attribute__((weak)) page_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
> +int __weak page_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
>  {
>  	return walk_system_ram_range(pfn, 1, NULL, __is_ram) == 1;
>  }

hm, it's strange to do this as two separate commits?

There was another fixlet:



From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>

ioport.h didn't seem like the right place to declare page_is_ram().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/ioport.h |    2 --
 include/linux/mm.h     |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/ioport.h~resources-introduce-generic-page_is_ram-fix-2 include/linux/ioport.h
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h~resources-introduce-generic-page_is_ram-fix-2
+++ a/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -191,7 +191,5 @@ extern int
 walk_system_ram_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		void *arg, int (*func)(unsigned long, unsigned long, void *));
 
-extern int page_is_ram(unsigned long pfn);
-
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif	/* _LINUX_IOPORT_H */
diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~resources-introduce-generic-page_is_ram-fix-2 include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~resources-introduce-generic-page_is_ram-fix-2
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ static inline int get_page_unless_zero(s
 	return atomic_inc_not_zero(&page->_count);
 }
 
+extern int page_is_ram(unsigned long pfn);
+
 /* Support for virtually mapped pages */
 struct page *vmalloc_to_page(const void *addr);
 unsigned long vmalloc_to_pfn(const void *addr);
_

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/