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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@mvista.com>
Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] IPV4 spinlock_casting
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:04:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050808090457.GA11771@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123466661.20677.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>


* Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@mvista.com> wrote:

> Fix a compile error in net/ipv4/route.c when RT patch is applied:

> Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-14/net/ipv4/route.c

are you sure you are seeing this with the -52-14 patch? If yes then 
please send me your .config.

the build error showed a more fundamental bug, which had to be solved 
differently. The problem was the code in route.c, the problem was this:

 # define rt_hash_lock_addr(slot) NULL
 # define rt_hash_lock_init()

where NULL has no type. The solution for the build problem would have 
been to cast the NULL to spinlock_t *, but we need this spinlock so the 
correct solution was to add a || defined(PREEMPT_RT) to the #if 
defined(CONFIG_SMP) line above. Solving the build problem alone only 
fixes the symptom, not the bug.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-08  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08  2:04 [patch] IPV4 spinlock_casting Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2005-08-08  9:04 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-08-08  9:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-08 19:54     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich

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