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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Link breakage on all architectures which implement their own show_mem
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:55:00 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301050500.2402.487.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300898506.15899.24.camel@mulgrave.site>

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 11:41 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>     oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill
> 
> Is the cause.  What it does is introduce a new __show_mem() which is
> required by files in mm/, so the object containing it: show_mem.o gets
> pulled in all the time in the link and that gives every architecture
> that implements their own show_mem() a link failure because of the
> double definition.  Library linking works at the file level, not at
> the
> function level.  To work, you have to put these functions in separate 

Can't this be fixed by making show_mem() weak ? Or am I missing
something ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23 16:41 Link breakage on all architectures which implement their own show_mem James Bottomley
2011-03-24 22:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-03-25 14:13   ` James Bottomley
2011-03-25 20:02     ` David Rientjes
2011-03-25 18:38   ` Josh Boyer
2011-03-25 10:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-03-25 14:11   ` James Bottomley

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