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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 5/21] Rename compat versions of the reusable core generation routines
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:57:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101214155708.GC11400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101214153314.04d05dd2@suzukikp>

On 12/14, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>
> Rename the ELF class specific functions reusable for the application core dump 
> infrastructure. The compat ELF class routines are prepended with compat_ .
>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.36-rc7/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.36-rc7.orig/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
> +++ linux-2.6.36-rc7/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ static void cputime_to_compat_timeval(co
>  #define init_elf_binfmt		init_compat_elf_binfmt
>  #define exit_elf_binfmt		exit_compat_elf_binfmt
>
> +/* Rename the functions that may be reused */
> +#define fill_elf_header 	compat_fill_elf_header
> +#define fill_psinfo		compat_fill_psinfo
> +#define fill_prstatus		compat_fill_prstatus
> +#define fill_extnum_info	compat_fill_extnum_info
> +#define fill_auxv_note		compat_fill_auxv_note

Can't undestand.... Afaics, the kernel can't be compiled
with this change until the next patches actually implement
compat_xxx ?

This is not bisect friendly.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14  9:52 [RFC] [Patch 0/21] Non disruptive application core dump infrastructure Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14  9:54 ` [Patch 1/21] Reuse freezable() predicate Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14  9:57 ` [Patch 2/21] Create elfcore-common.c for ELF class independent core generation helpers Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:00 ` [Patch 3/21] Make vma_dump_size() generic Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 15:53   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:01 ` [Patch 4/21] Make fill_psinfo generic Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 15:53   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 15:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-15  2:22     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:03 ` [Patch 5/21] Rename compat versions of the reusable core generation routines Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 15:57   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-12-15  2:30     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:04 ` [Patch 6/21] Export the reusable ELF " Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:05 ` [Patch 7/21] Define API for reading arch specif Program Headers for Core Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:08 ` [Patch 8/21] ia64 Implementation of elf_core_copy_extra_phdrs() Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:09 ` [Patch 9/21] UML (i386) " Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:11 ` [Patch 10/21] Create /proc/pid/core entry Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:36   ` Cong Wang
2010-12-14 15:02     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:12 ` [Patch 11/21] Track the core generation requests Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:51   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-12-14 16:04   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:13 ` [Patch 12/21] Check if the process is an ELF executable Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 16:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:15 ` [Patch 13/21] Freeze / Thaw threads Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 16:17   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:16 ` [Patch 14/21] Create ELF header Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 16:24   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:17 ` [Patch 15/21] Collect ELF Core notes data Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 16:37   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:19 ` [Patch 16/21] Wait for threads to freeze Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 16:42   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-14 10:20 ` [Patch 17/21] Calculate the size of the core file Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:22 ` [Patch 18/21] Generate the data sections for ELF Core Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-15  7:19   ` Cong Wang
2010-12-15 12:46     ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-16  2:14       ` Cong Wang
2010-12-14 10:24 ` [Patch 19/21] Identify the ELF class of the process Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:26 ` [Patch 20/21] Add supporting for compat ELF class data structures Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:27 ` [Patch 21/21] Compat ELF class Core generation support Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 10:54 ` [RFC] [Patch 0/21] Non disruptive application core dump infrastructure Alexey Dobriyan
2010-12-14 14:59   ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-14 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-14 16:03   ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-14 16:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-14 16:28       ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-15  5:34   ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-15  9:37     ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-15 11:26       ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-15 11:51         ` Andi Kleen
2010-12-16  7:57           ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2010-12-15  1:04 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-15  5:24   ` Suzuki K. Poulose

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