2004-09-05 07:20:13

by Anton Blanchard

Subject: Correct ELF section used for out of line spinlocks

Hi,

The vmlinux.lds is using .lock.text but __lockfunc was using
.spinlock.text.

Anton

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>

diff -puN include/linux/spinlock.h~fix_outofline_spinlocks include/linux/spinlock.h
--- gr_work/include/linux/spinlock.h~fix_outofline_spinlocks 2004-09-05 02:05:53.243858818 -0500
+++ gr_work-anton/include/linux/spinlock.h 2004-09-05 02:06:06.177805993 -0500
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#include <asm/spinlock.h>

-#define __lockfunc fastcall __attribute__((section(".spinlock.text")))
+#define __lockfunc fastcall __attribute__((section(".lock.text")))

int __lockfunc _spin_trylock(spinlock_t *lock);
int __lockfunc _write_trylock(rwlock_t *lock);
_

2004-09-05 14:04:38

by Zwane Mwaikambo

Subject: Re: Correct ELF section used for out of line spinlocks

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> The vmlinux.lds is using .lock.text but __lockfunc was using
> .spinlock.text.

Thanks Anton, big booboo, i had changed the name of the section in the
link scripts last minute (since it covered more than spinlocks).

Zwane