Re: [PATCH] Fix section type conflict in arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:15:52 +0900,
Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:51:11AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:48:48 +0100,
> > Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:57:21AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > >__initdata and const cannot be always a happy pair, as gcc-4.3.3 gives
> > > > >the compile errors like:
> > > > >
> > > > >  arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c:156: error: xen_init_ops causes a section 
> > > > >  type conflict
> > > > >  arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c:340: error: xen_iosapic_ops causes a section 
> > > > >  type conflict
> > > > >
> > > > >This patch simply removes const from data with __initdata.
> > > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, I've seen these sort of messages before, but I don't see why 
> > > > there's an inherent problem with having const __initdata.
> > > > 
> > > > Sam?
> > > 
> > > The root problem here is that in some cases gcc will stuff this into
> > > a section marked CONST and in other cases not.
> > > So when we manually specify the section we better not mix const and
> > > non-const stuff in the same section.
> > > The problem is that it is very gcc dependent. I have with powerpc
> > > seen that the same code was not put in CONST with a 32 bit build,
> > > but with the 64 bit build it was.
> > > The only cure was to remove the const and use initdata.
> > > You can try to play with initconst - and it may work.
> > > But you need to have pretty good build coverage to be sure.
> > 
> > OK, then my original patch should do right :)
> > Do you guys see any problems with it?
> > 
> > Right now 2.6.28-rc kernel doesn't build, thus this is basically a
> > regression.
> 
> I'm fine with the patch.
> 
> The above sounds x86 xen potentially has the same issue, though.
> 
> linux-2.6/arch/x86/xen $ grep __initdata *
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_info xen_info __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_init_ops xen_init_ops __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_time_ops xen_time_ops __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_apic_ops xen_apic_ops __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct pv_mmu_ops xen_mmu_ops __initdata = {
> enlighten.c:static const struct machine_ops __initdata xen_machine_ops = {
> irq.c:static const struct pv_irq_ops xen_irq_ops __initdata = {
> smp.c:static const struct smp_ops xen_smp_ops __initdata = {

Oh, care to create a patch?


thanks,

Takashi