2010-08-09 (월), 13:21 +0100, Ralf Baechle: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 10:15:04PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > > Maybe you could explain in more detail the problems you are having > > with the current definition of __pa_symbol(). I would be hesitant > > to change this bit of black magic unless there is a concrete problem > > you are trying to solve. > > RELOC_HIDE was originally added by 6007b903dfe5f1d13e0c711ac2894bdd4a61b1ad > (lmo) rsp. 8431fd094d625b94d364fe393076ccef88e6ce18 (kernel.org). A > discussion can be found in lkml posting > a2ebde260608230500o3407b108hc03debb9da6e62c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> which is > archived at > > http://lists.linuxcoding.com/kernel/2006-q3/msg17360.html > > I felt this was dubious by the time it was added and probably should go? > > Ralf Hi, I've sent basically same patch to x86 folks [1] and they said there is a possiblility of miscompilation on gcc 3. I am not sure the same goes here on mips but it might be safer to keep it. Sorry for the noise ;-( [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/8/138 -- Regards, Namhyung Kim
