OProfile cannot be loaded as module...

[David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>]

arch/mips/oprofile/common.c defines several symbols (op_model_mipsxx and 
op_model_rm9000) with __attribute__((weak)).  It then assumes that ELF 
linking conventions will prevail and there will be no problems if they 
are undefined.

The problem is if you try to load oprofile as a module.  The kernel 
module linker evidentially does not understand weak symbols and refuses 
to load the module because they are undefined.

Perhaps a single

extern struct op_mips_model plat_op_model;

That must be defined by each different implementation.  Deciding one 
which implementation would then be done at compile time instead of runtime.

I don't have a patch for this yet, but that is what I am thinking of doing.

David Daney.