Re: [PATCH] MIPS: idle: Remove leftover __pastwait symbol and its references

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:57:08PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:

> The __pastwait symbol was only used by the address_is_in_r4k_wait_irqoff
> function but this is no longer used since the SMTC removal in commit
> b633648c5ad3 ('MIPS: MT: Remove SMTC support'). That symbol also led to
> build failures under certain random configuration due to the way the
> compiler compiled the r4k_wait_irqoff function. If that function was
> called multiple times, the __pastwait symbol was redefined breaking the
> build like this:

Applied.  If this problems show up again on older kernels that still have
SMTC we still can cook up a different fix.

> CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> CC      arch/mips/kernel/idle.o
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:527: Error: symbol `__pastwait' is already defined
> 
> Link: http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2009-06/msg00282.html

When posting any kind of reference please always use the permanent links.

Applied,

  Ralf