Re: [PATCH v1 09/10] memory-hotplug: Remove "weak" from memory_block_size_bytes() declaration

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[+cc Rashika, Nathan, Anton, Blanchard, Heiko, Yinghai, Martin,
linux-s390; sorry, I botched my "stg mail" so you weren't included the
first time.  s390 and x86 define their own memory_block_size_bytes()
and are at risk for this problem.]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> drivers/base/memory.c provides a default memory_block_size_bytes()
> definition explicitly marked "weak".  Several architectures provide their
> own definitions intended to override the default, but the "weak" attribute
> on the declaration applied to the arch definitions as well, so the linker
> chose one based on link order (see 10629d711ed7 ("PCI: Remove __weak
> annotation from pcibios_get_phb_of_node decl")).
>
> Remove the "weak" attribute from the declaration so we always prefer a
> non-weak definition over the weak one, independent of link order.
>
> Fixes: 41f107266b19 ("drivers: base: Add prototype declaration to the header file")
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memory.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h
> index bb7384e3c3d8..8b8d8d12348e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memory.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memory.h
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct memory_block {
>  };
>
>  int arch_get_memory_phys_device(unsigned long start_pfn);
> -unsigned long __weak memory_block_size_bytes(void);
> +unsigned long memory_block_size_bytes(void);
>
>  /* These states are exposed to userspace as text strings in sysfs */
>  #define        MEM_ONLINE              (1<<0) /* exposed to userspace */
>
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