Dne 19.8.2012 04:56, Andi Kleen napsal(a): > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The vsyscall code is compiled without LTO. This also includes > its init function. The function which are called by it have > to be visible, otherwise they could be optimized away > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- > include/linux/mm.h | 1 + > mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c > index b86eae9..33c8fe5 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/random.c > +++ b/drivers/char/random.c > @@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ late_initcall(random_int_secret_init); > * depleting entropy is too high > */ > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32 [MD5_DIGEST_WORDS], get_random_int_hash); > -unsigned int get_random_int(void) > +__visible unsigned int get_random_int(void) I think that there should be a comment why the symbol needs to be visible (just copy the reasoning from the changelog). Otherwise someone might attempt to do a cleanup a few years later, noticing that there is no assembler code calling get_random_int(). Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
