arch: drop duplicate exports of abort()

Commit Message

Sudip Mukherjee Jan. 2, 2018, 11:34 a.m. UTC

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:31:12AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We now have exports in both architecture code in in common code,
> which causes a link failure when symbol versioning is eanbled, on
> four architectures:
> 
> kernel/exit.o: In function `__crc_abort':
> exit.c:(*ABS*+0xc0e2ec8b): multiple definition of `__crc_abort'
> 
> This removes the four architecture specific exports and only
> leaves the export next to the __weak symbol.

Will it not be better to remove the abort() as they are exactly same
like the weak function. That was the original plan we had when this
weak function was done. Like in the attached patch..

--
Regards
Sudip

Comments

Russell King (Oracle) Jan. 2, 2018, 11:38 a.m. UTC | #1

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:34:45AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:31:12AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > We now have exports in both architecture code in in common code,
> > which causes a link failure when symbol versioning is eanbled, on
> > four architectures:
> > 
> > kernel/exit.o: In function `__crc_abort':
> > exit.c:(*ABS*+0xc0e2ec8b): multiple definition of `__crc_abort'
> > 
> > This removes the four architecture specific exports and only
> > leaves the export next to the __weak symbol.
> 
> Will it not be better to remove the abort() as they are exactly same
> like the weak function. That was the original plan we had when this
> weak function was done. Like in the attached patch..

If that was the plan, why wasn't it done - why did we end up with a
build-breaking patch merged in -mm?

Sudip Mukherjee Jan. 2, 2018, 12:34 p.m. UTC | #2

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:38:29AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:34:45AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Hi Arnd,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:31:12AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > We now have exports in both architecture code in in common code,
> > > which causes a link failure when symbol versioning is eanbled, on
> > > four architectures:
> > > 
> > > kernel/exit.o: In function `__crc_abort':
> > > exit.c:(*ABS*+0xc0e2ec8b): multiple definition of `__crc_abort'
> > > 
> > > This removes the four architecture specific exports and only
> > > leaves the export next to the __weak symbol.
> > 
> > Will it not be better to remove the abort() as they are exactly same
> > like the weak function. That was the original plan we had when this
> > weak function was done. Like in the attached patch..
> 
> If that was the plan, why wasn't it done - why did we end up with a
> build-breaking patch merged in -mm?

The proposed patch (which I attached in the earlier mail) was breaking
the build unless weak abort() is exported. So, ideally the export of
weak abort() and the proposed patch should have been part of a series.
But afaik, the export has been done to fix another build failure reported
by Vineet.

Andrew, I think the best way now is to apply the patch sent by Arnd,
and I will send a separate patch to remove abort() after proper testing.


--
Regards
Sudip

Patch

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arc/kernel/traps.c
index 51a55b0..133a4da 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -169,4 +169,3 @@  void abort(void)
 {
 	__asm__ __volatile__("trap_s  5\n");
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index e344bdd..917b425 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -786,15 +786,6 @@  asmlinkage void __div0(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__div0);
 
-void abort(void)
-{
-	BUG();
-
-	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
-	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
-
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
 	return;
diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c b/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c
index cb79fba..a6f300a 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c
@@ -115,15 +115,6 @@  static void set_eit_vector_entries(void)
 	_flush_cache_copyback_all();
 }
 
-void abort(void)
-{
-	BUG();
-
-	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
-	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
-
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
 	set_eit_vector_entries();
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c b/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c
index 5f25b39..30d6613 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c
@@ -291,15 +291,6 @@  asmlinkage void __div0(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__div0);
 
-void abort(void)
-{
-	BUG();
-
-	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
-	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
-
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
 	return;