[uml-devel] Re: post-2.6.3 build error

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>]

BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> writes:

> __NR_sched_yield ] = (syscall_handler_t *) yield
> 
> It should refer to sys_sched_yield. yield() is not even asmlinkage, so this 
> could case serious problems, and it is commented as "for kernel usage". Also 
> I checked i386 syscall table, and it uses sys_sched_yield.

There is another related one (asmlinkage where it shouldn't be) in
mprotect.c.  With the new CONFIG_REGPARM config option it becomes
really important to get that right ...

  Gerd

Index: linux-2.6.3/mm/mprotect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.3.orig/mm/mprotect.c
+++ linux-2.6.3/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ fail:
 	return error;
 }
 
-asmlinkage long
+long
 do_mprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len, 
 	     unsigned long prot)
 {


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