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Re: do_softirq

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: do_softirq
From: Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:42:26 -0700
Cc: "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <23039.992563134@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This is a different patch than the one I was aware of from the kml. Is
this preferred over the non-version symbol export? (Hope I didn't misunderstand that..) That one seemed to work well.

-Walt


Keith Owens wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:47:05 +0200,
>"Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Having compiled 2.4.6-pre3-xfs, I get an unresolved symbol in
>>ppp_generic.o:
>>
>># /sbin/depmod -a -e
>>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
>>/lib/modules/2.4.6-pre3-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
>>depmod:         do_softirq
>>
>
>Kernel bug, not XFS.  Patch has been sent to Linus.
>
>Index: 6-pre3.1/include/asm-i386/softirq.h
>--- 6-pre3.1/include/asm-i386/softirq.h Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:25:53 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/T/51_softirq.h 1.3 644) >+++ 6-pre3.1(w)/include/asm-i386/softirq.h Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:26:16 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/T/51_softirq.h 1.3 644)
>@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ do {                                                       
             \
> \
>                    ".section .text.lock,\"ax\";"                       \
>                    "2: pushl %%eax; pushl %%ecx; pushl %%edx;"   \
>- "call do_softirq;" \ >+ "call %c1;" \
>                    "popl %%edx; popl %%ecx; popl %%eax;"         \
>                    "jmp 1b;"                                     \
> ".previous;" \ > \
>            : /* no output */                                       \
>- : "r" (ptr) \ >+ : "r" (ptr), "i" (do_softirq) \
>            /* no registers clobbered */ );                         \
> } while (0)
>
>
>




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