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authorIvan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>2008-02-13 15:03:26 -0800
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2008-03-24 11:47:25 -0700
commitd25532f4d8283edb7f844ae5a7770cbd51d05dc8 (patch)
tree2cc4842aad6b9b2f36f95373596d90aca00ab061
parent9256d0b8cb13a854c0a29861ce37a252f7712568 (diff)
moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures
[upstream commit: 91d35dd9] On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where param_set/get are local functions. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964 Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> [chrisw@sous-sol.org: backport to 2.6.24.3] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 13410b20600f..c1d64c2f9360 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ struct kparam_array
void *elem;
};
+/* On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 relocations to global data cannot go into
+ read-only sections (which is part of respective UNIX ABI on these
+ platforms). So 'const' makes no sense and even causes compile failures
+ with some compilers. */
+#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) || defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC64)
+#define __moduleparam_const
+#else
+#define __moduleparam_const const
+#endif
+
/* This is the fundamental function for registering boot/module
parameters. perm sets the visibility in sysfs: 000 means it's
not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's
@@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ struct kparam_array
static int __param_perm_check_##name __attribute__((unused)) = \
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) < 0 || (perm) > 0777 || ((perm) & 2)); \
static const char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \
- static struct kernel_param const __param_##name \
+ static struct kernel_param __moduleparam_const __param_##name \
__attribute_used__ \
__attribute__ ((unused,__section__ ("__param"),aligned(sizeof(void *)))) \
= { __param_str_##name, perm, set, get, { arg } }