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From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Error: symbol `__pastwait' is already defined
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:58:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244879922.24479.30.camel@falcon> (raw)

Hi, 

there is a guy reported a compiling problem in linux-2.6.29:

[...]
  CC      arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:3939: Error: symbol `__pastwait' is already defined
make[1]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/mips/kernel] Error 2

Seems I met this problem before, perhaps here is the reason:

arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c:

void r4k_wait_irqoff(void)
{
    local_irq_disable();
    if (!need_resched())
        __asm__("   .set    push        \n"
            "   .set    mips3       \n"
            "   wait            \n"
            "   .set    pop     \n");
    local_irq_enable();
    __asm__("   .globl __pastwait   \n"
        "__pastwait:            \n");
    return;
}

there is a global symbol __pastwait defined at the end of
r4k_wait_irqoff, if r4k_wait_irqoff is called more than one time, the
__pastwait will be multi-defined. so, need to be fixed. does this fix
it?

arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c:

void r4k_wait_irqoff(void)
{
    local_irq_disable();
    if (!need_resched())
        __asm__("   .set    push        \n"
            "   .set    mips3       \n"
            "   wait            \n"
            "   .set    pop     \n");
    local_irq_enable();
    return;
}
/* a dumy funciton for marking the end of r4k_wait_irqoff */
void __pastwait(void)
{
	;
}

but I am not sure the gcc compiler will tune the position of the
r4k_wait_irqoff and __pastwait or not, so seems not safe. perhaps we
should change something else instead.

perhaps we should tune the __pastwait solution directly, just spark it,
not look into it yet, seems __pastwait is only used here:

arch/mips/kernel/smtc.c:
smtc_send_ipi:

            if (cpu_wait == r4k_wait_irqoff) {
                tcrestart = read_tc_c0_tcrestart();
                if (tcrestart >= (unsigned long)r4k_wait_irqoff
                    && tcrestart < (unsigned long)__pastwait) {
                    write_tc_c0_tcrestart(__pastwait);
                    tcstatus &= ~TCSTATUS_IXMT;
                    write_tc_c0_tcstatus(tcstatus);
                    goto postdirect;
                }    
            } 

best wishes,
Wu Zhangjin 

             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-13  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-13  7:58 Wu Zhangjin [this message]
2009-06-13 16:25 ` Error: symbol `__pastwait' is already defined Kevin D. Kissell
2009-06-14  9:12   ` Ralf Baechle

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