Re: [PATCH] Fix kprobes on ia64

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 02:42:21 EST


On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:24:24PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> If CONFIG_KPROBES is set, we get the error during build:
>
> kernel/kprobes.c:1057: error: __ksymtab_jprobe_return causes a section
> type conflict
>
> This is because ia64 defines a static inline jprobe_return which kprobes
> attempts to EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Given that jprobe_return is defined in the arch-specific kprobes.c file
it would be better to export it there instead of in kernel/kprobe.c, or
in case of ia64 not export it at all.

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