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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Romeo Cane <romeo.cane.ext@coriant.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix sys_call_table declaration
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:34:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412285674.28143.35.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141002144131.GA3855@rcane-VirtualBox>

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:41 +0100, Romeo Cane wrote:
> Declaring sys_call_table as a pointer causes the compiler to generate the wrong lookup code in arch_syscall_addr

Care to elaborate ?

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Romeo Cane <romeo.cane.ext@coriant.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> index b54b2ad..528ba9d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>  
>  /* ftrace syscalls requires exporting the sys_call_table */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
> -extern const unsigned long *sys_call_table;
> +extern const unsigned long sys_call_table[];
>  #endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */
>  
>  static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Romeo Cane <romeo.cane.ext@coriant.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix sys_call_table declaration
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:34:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412285674.28143.35.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141002144131.GA3855@rcane-VirtualBox>

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:41 +0100, Romeo Cane wrote:
> Declaring sys_call_table as a pointer causes the compiler to generate the wrong lookup code in arch_syscall_addr

Care to elaborate ?

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Romeo Cane <romeo.cane.ext@coriant.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> index b54b2ad..528ba9d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>  
>  /* ftrace syscalls requires exporting the sys_call_table */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
> -extern const unsigned long *sys_call_table;
> +extern const unsigned long sys_call_table[];
>  #endif /* CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS */
>  
>  static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-02 14:41 [PATCH] powerpc: fix sys_call_table declaration Romeo Cane
2014-10-02 14:41 ` Romeo Cane
2014-10-02 21:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-10-02 21:34   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-10-03 10:00   ` Romeo Cane
2014-10-03 10:00     ` Romeo Cane
2014-10-07 12:15     ` Michael Ellerman
2014-10-07 12:15       ` Michael Ellerman

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