From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752765AbZIZQKp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751982AbZIZQKo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:10:44 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:42583 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751640AbZIZQKo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:10:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:10:34 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Steven Rostedt , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing fixes Message-ID: <20090926161034.GA17279@lst.de> References: <20090921130228.GA25588@elte.hu> <20090921162211.GA844@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090921162211.GA844@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:22:11PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Hm, yes, you are right, we missed that. I noticed the modpost > dependency: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125326944223679&w=2 > > but thought that it's safe and didnt notice that dangling > module_layout() reference and the build warning it generates in the > kernel. > > I _think_ the patch below should do the trick - module_layout() appears > to be an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols listed in its > argument list so that it gets a proper signature. Removing the marker > symbol should thus be the solution, but i'm not 100% sure. Thoughts? > > Ingo Looks good to me, Linus? > diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c > index b6ee424..392eb3d 100644 > --- a/kernel/module.c > +++ b/kernel/module.c > @@ -2947,7 +2947,6 @@ void module_layout(struct module *mod, > struct modversion_info *ver, > struct kernel_param *kp, > struct kernel_symbol *ks, > - struct marker *marker, > struct tracepoint *tp) > { > } ---end quoted text---