On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This causes a link failure on ARM in certain configurations, > when we reference each atomic operation from .alt.smp.init in > order to patch out atomics on non-SMP systems: > > `.exit.text' referenced in section `.alt.smp.init' of > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.o: defined in discarded section > `.exit.text' of drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.o > > In this case, we can trivially replace the atomic_inc() with > an atomic_set() that has the same effect and does not require > a fixup.
I'd rather fіx the arm section management. Using atomic in exit routines is perfectly valid, and it would seem odd to forbid it. _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
