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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free_ptr() to fix build error
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:47:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915104718.135cb7393fb63bd8140105a2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whsAk7u0arWz37YbCyQPZgKfKOhrM1oKp+0B9uJk6J9OQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:21:09 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 5:53 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Since commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner
> > 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface") introduced memblock_free_ptr()
> > to lib/bootconfig.c, bootconfig tool also has to define
> > memblock_free_ptr() wrapper, and remove unused __pa() and
> > memblock_free().
> 
> Christ.
> 
> I grepped for this, and couldn't find any use of that memblock_free
> function in the tools directory, so I ignored it.
> 
> It seems like the code in lib/bootconfig.c is compiled both into the
> kernel and into that tool. This is a nightmare. We've explicitly tried
> to avoid this for the tooling headers exactly because of issues like
> this.

Hmm, OK. Let me copy lib/bootconfig.c itself into tools/bootconfig
as a user-space code.

Thank you,

> 
>            Linus


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  0:52 [PATCH v2 0/5] bootconfig: Fixes to bootconfig memory management Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  0:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] bootconfig: Fix to check the xbc_node is used before free it Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  1:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15  1:44     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  0:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in xbc_make_cmdline() Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  0:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in setup_boot_config() Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  0:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] bootconfig: Free copied bootconfig data after boot Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  1:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15  1:45     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  0:53 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free_ptr() to fix build error Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-15  1:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15  1:47     ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2021-09-15  1:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15  3:00         ` Masami Hiramatsu

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