linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64: Depend on non-static printk for cmpxchg debug

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Date:   Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:14:55 +0000
From:   Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: Depend on non-static printk for cmpxchg debug

Matthew Wilcox writes:
>Why not just fix it?
>
>diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
>index 5d90307fd6e0..d955a8e3ebde 100644
>--- a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
>+++ b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
>@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ extern long ia64_cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void);
> do {									\
> 	if (_cmpxchg_bugcheck_count-- <= 0) {				\
> 		void *ip;						\
>-		extern int printk(const char *fmt, ...);		\
>+		int printk(const char *fmt, ...);			\
> 		ip = (void *) ia64_getreg(_IA64_REG_IP);		\
> 		printk("CMPXCHG_BUGCHECK: stuck at %p on word %p\n", ip, (v));\
> 		break;							\

I must confess I have no idea of the history of why it was `extern int` in the 
first place -- my fear was somehow we use cmpxchg.h from a different context.  
Do you have any idea? :-)