Re: [PATCH 7/7] preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules

Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20T19:00:23Z

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:54:57AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> run into a couple of compile issues.
>
> 1)
> include/linux/rcupdate.h: In function ‘rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace’:
> include/linux/rcupdate.h:889:2: error: implicit declaration of function
> ‘preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> 2)
> In file included from drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c:41:0:
> include/linux/uaccess.h: In function ‘pagefault_enable’:
> include/linux/uaccess.h:34:2: error: implicit declaration of function
> ‘preempt_check_resched’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> 1) happens when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set, perhaps add a dummy function?

Ah, indeed, will fix.

> 2) I am not sure if we should take pagefault_enable away from modules

We can't I think, I'll have to fix that up. Easiest would be to make
preempt_check_resched() available again. That function actually adds
preemption points so its not bad.