On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:05:47AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-24 12:34:41]: > > > >> -- > > > > After the applying the patch, the kernel panic's with the same backtrace. The > > box is running Fedora 5 on it. > > > > please try... > Ingo, do we need to switch to use #idef and inline function instead? I recall David Howells had a similar issue with the bootparamter patch set. The workaround he used was to add a barrier(); call in the weak function to avoid the inline. [full context kept as I added David to to: list]. Sam > > YH > > > [PATCH] sparseirq: add printk to workaround compiler optimizing > > Impact: fix panic on null pointer with sparseirq > > some compiler seems to inline the weak global function. > try to workaround it > > also remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init() > already have one weak copy in init/main.c > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > init/main.c | 2 ++ > kernel/irq/handle.c | 7 ++----- > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-2.6/init/main.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/init/main.c > +++ linux-2.6/init/main.c > @@ -544,10 +544,12 @@ void __init __weak thread_info_cache_ini > > void __init __weak arch_early_irq_init(void) > { > + printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling __weak arch_early_irq_init\n"); > } > > void __init __weak early_irq_init(void) > { > + printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling __weak early_irq_init\n"); > arch_early_irq_init(); > } > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/irq/handle.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/irq/handle.c > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/irq/handle.c > @@ -56,10 +56,6 @@ void handle_bad_irq(unsigned int irq, st > int nr_irqs = NR_IRQS; > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nr_irqs); > > -void __init __attribute__((weak)) arch_early_irq_init(void) > -{ > -} > - > #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ > static struct irq_desc irq_desc_init = { > .irq = -1, > @@ -90,8 +86,9 @@ void init_kstat_irqs(struct irq_desc *de > desc->kstat_irqs = (unsigned int *)ptr; > } > > -void __attribute__((weak)) arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu) > +void __weak arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu) > { > + printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling __weak arch_init_chip_data\n"); > } > > static void init_one_irq_desc(int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html