Re: [PATCH] blackfin / h8300 build error fix

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:26:47 -0400 "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> you cant just use straight symbol names in common header files as they
> dont take into consideration weird arch-specific ABI conventions.  in
> the case of Blackfin/h8300, the ABI dictates that any C-visible
> symbols have an underscore prefixed to them.  thus all symbols in
> vmlinux.lds.h need to be wrapped in VMLINUX_SYMBOL() so that each arch
> can put hide this magic in their own files.

ooh, a changelog.

This seems to be a pretty common failing.  I just had to fix the same
problem in a linux-next patch:

diff -puN include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~zero-based-percpu-use-vmlinux_symbol-in-include-asm-generic-vmlinuxldsh include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~zero-based-percpu-use-vmlinux_symbol-in-include-asm-generic-vmlinuxldsh
+++ a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -385,15 +385,15 @@
 #define PERCPU(align)							\
 	. = ALIGN(align);						\
 	percpu : { } :percpu						\
-	__per_cpu_load = .;						\
-	.data.percpu 0 : AT(__per_cpu_load - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
+	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_load) = .;				\
+	.data.percpu 0 : AT(VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_load) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
 		*(.data.percpu.first)					\
 		*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)				\
 		*(.data.percpu)						\
 		*(.data.percpu.page_aligned)				\
-		____per_cpu_size = .;					\
+		VMLINUX_SYMBOL(____per_cpu_size) = .;			\
 	}								\
-	. = __per_cpu_load + ____per_cpu_size;				\
+	. = VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_load) + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(____per_cpu_size); \
 	data : { } :data
 #else
 #define PERCPU(align)							\
_

(haven't tested it yet).

It's going to keep happening too, unless we find some way of making x86
break when people forget to use VMLINUX_SYMBOL().