Commit 91d35dd93e14c34539a8005183ea500f25caad02
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Linus Torvalds
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moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures
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: "Luck, Tony" <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>
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include/linux/moduleparam.h
... | ... | @@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ |
62 | 62 | void *elem; |
63 | 63 | }; |
64 | 64 | |
65 | +/* On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 relocations to global data cannot go into | |
66 | + read-only sections (which is part of respective UNIX ABI on these | |
67 | + platforms). So 'const' makes no sense and even causes compile failures | |
68 | + with some compilers. */ | |
69 | +#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) || defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC64) | |
70 | +#define __moduleparam_const | |
71 | +#else | |
72 | +#define __moduleparam_const const | |
73 | +#endif | |
74 | + | |
65 | 75 | /* This is the fundamental function for registering boot/module |
66 | 76 | parameters. perm sets the visibility in sysfs: 000 means it's |
67 | 77 | not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's |
... | ... | @@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ |
71 | 81 | static int __param_perm_check_##name __attribute__((unused)) = \ |
72 | 82 | BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) < 0 || (perm) > 0777 || ((perm) & 2)); \ |
73 | 83 | static const char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \ |
74 | - static struct kernel_param const __param_##name \ | |
84 | + static struct kernel_param __moduleparam_const __param_##name \ | |
75 | 85 | __used \ |
76 | 86 | __attribute__ ((unused,__section__ ("__param"),aligned(sizeof(void *)))) \ |
77 | 87 | = { __param_str_##name, perm, set, get, { arg } } |