Re: [PATCH 1/4] Prep for paravirt: Be careful about touching BIOSaddress space

[Don Mullis]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> @@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ static struct pci_raw_ops pci_bios_acces
>  
>  static struct pci_raw_ops * __devinit pci_find_bios(void)
>  {
> -	union bios32 *check;
> +	union bios32 *check, sig;

This "sig" definition has no references, and is shadowed by the definition below.

> @@ -314,6 +315,10 @@ static struct pci_raw_ops * __devinit pc
>  	for (check = (union bios32 *) __va(0xe0000);
>  	     check <= (union bios32 *) __va(0xffff0);
>  	     ++check) {
> +		long sig;
> +		if (__get_user(sig, &check->fields.signature))

But, no complaint from gcc.  Trying to elicit a complaint by configuring
CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE='n' breaks the build with:

  include/asm/desc.h: In function 'set_ldt':
  include/asm/desc.h:92: error: implicit declaration of function 'write_gdt_entry'

See reply to "[PATCH 3/4]" for a fix.

DM

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