Re: uml: sigprocmask fix

[Shane Hathaway]

Américo Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:18:01PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > I just ran into the same issue described here:
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/15/194
> >
> > Like Americo Wang, my user mode linux compile failed when attempting to
> > link ".tmp_vmlinux".  However, his patch is probably wrong.  The problem
> > is that the name "sigprocmask" is getting renamed to
> > "kernel_sigprocmask" by a compiler directive in arch/um/Makefile, then
> > that name gets mangled into "sys_kernel_sigprocmask" by the
> > SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigprocmask, ...) macro in kernel/signal.c.
>
>
> Hmmm, I found this, but note that replacing sigprocmask with
> kernel_sigprocmask is done by strip, that should be after compiling.
> But macros are processed before compiling.
>
> Am I missing something?

Probably not, but have you made progress in figuring out why others can 
apparently successfully compile UML without patching sys_call_table.S at 
all?  That's the real mystery.

Shane
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