linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Instead of dummy functions, include < linux/spinlock

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Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:06:18 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stefani@...bold.net, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Instead of dummy functions, include
 < linux/spinlock_up.h>

On 02/16/2014 07:51 PM, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Commit-ID:  bd9ee7fd99f127ee1306289415141d45792c97f3
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bd9ee7fd99f127ee1306289415141d45792c97f3
> Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:47:01 -0800
> Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> CommitDate: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:47:01 -0800
> 
> x86, vdso: Instead of dummy functions, include <linux/spinlock_up.h>
> 
> The list of dummy functions is insufficient.  However, instead of
> having a full list of dummy functions we can include
> <linux/spinlock_up.h> which contains the (trivial) implementations
> that we use on uniprocessor.
> 
> There aren't supposed to be any spinlocks at all in the VDSO, of
> course.
> 

That didn't work either.  I thought I was clever, but it didn't work at
all.  Multiple build failures across numerous configurations.  This is
turning into a total headache.

The "right" way to fix this is presumably to refactor a bunch of header
files so that the vdso code doesn't have to include a bunch of kernel
internal headers, but that is a lot of work.

	-hpa


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