From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>,
Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:38:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A02E445.7070201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090507125332.GM28398@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts
>> with host glibc.
>
>> +++ linux-2.6.30-rc4/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ config DEFCONFIG_LIST
>> default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG"
>> default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
>>
>> +config CONSTRUCTORS
>> + bool
>> + depends on !UML
>> + default y
>> +
>> menu "General setup"
>
> Hm, excluding UML like that is sad. Is there no better solution?
UML is excluded because in that environment constructors are called by
the host glibc, so there is no need for kernel support on UML (in fact
it would break things).
Or were you referring to the actual way the exclusion is implemented?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-07 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-07 12:45 [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 12:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 13:33 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 12:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 13:38 ` Peter Oberparleiter [this message]
2009-05-07 13:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-08 11:23 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 12:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] seq_file: add function to write binary data Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 12:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-07 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-08 11:10 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-11 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-12 13:09 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-12 13:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 12:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 Peter Oberparleiter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-02 11:43 [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-06-02 11:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-06-02 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-03 11:55 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-19 14:24 [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-19 14:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-12 15:38 [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-12 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-08 15:44 [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-09 5:03 ` Américo Wang
2009-05-11 8:43 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-05-11 18:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-12 13:12 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-02-26 13:51 Peter Oberparleiter
2009-02-03 12:46 Peter Oberparleiter
2009-02-04 2:54 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 15:05 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2009-02-04 23:23 ` Rusty Russell
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