Re: [kvm-ia64-devel] [PATCH] ia64 kvm fixes for O=... builds

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:14:02PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:46:44PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > >  kvm-intel-objs = vmm.o vmm_ivt.o trampoline.o vcpu.o optvfault.o
> > >  	mmio.o \ vtlb.o process.o
> > >  #Add link memcpy and memset to avoid possible structure assignment
> > > error -kvm-intel-objs += memset.o memcpy.o
> > > +kvm-intel-objs += ../lib/memset.o ../lib/memcpy.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL) += kvm-intel.o
> > 
> > I don't think it is workable for kvm-ia64.  Currently,  kvm-intel module
> > needs to be relocated at insertion time, so the code is
> > position-indenpent. Howerver, lib/*.memset.o(memcoy.o) are not compiled
> > as position independent code, they can't be linked into the module
> > correctly in your way. That is why we use symbol link instead of linking
> > the objects under /lib. 
> 
> symlinks won't work as you use them.  If you really need separately
> compiled, use file with a couple of #include "../lib/......S" and
> be done with that.

... like this, perhaps?  I still wonder what will happen with either this
or the original tree if you make CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=y, though - won't either
variant give you duplicate symbols?

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kvm/Makefile b/arch/ia64/kvm/Makefile
index 5235339..e7b9432 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/Makefile
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ EXTRA_CFLAGS_vcpu.o += -mfixed-range=f2-f5,f12-f127
 kvm-intel-objs = vmm.o vmm_ivt.o trampoline.o vcpu.o optvfault.o mmio.o \
 	vtlb.o process.o
 #Add link memcpy and memset to avoid possible structure assignment error
-kvm-intel-objs += ../lib/memset.o ../lib/memcpy.o
+kvm-intel-objs += memset.o memcpy.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL) += kvm-intel.o
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kvm/memcpy.S b/arch/ia64/kvm/memcpy.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c04cdbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/memcpy.S
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "../lib/memcpy.S"
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kvm/memset.S b/arch/ia64/kvm/memset.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83c3066
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/memset.S
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "../lib/memset.S"