On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:20:02PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> commit: 925f83c085e1bb08435556c5b4844a60de002e31
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 01:53:18 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] hw_breakpoints, powerpc: Fix CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
>  off-case in ptrace_set_debugreg()
> 
> We make use of ptrace_get_breakpoints() / ptrace_put_breakpoints() to
> protect ptrace_set_debugreg() even if CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if off.
> However in this case, these APIs are not implemented.
> 
> To fix this, push the protection down inside the relevant ifdef.
> Best would be to export the code inside
> CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT into a standalone function to cleanup
> the ifdefury there and call the breakpoint ref API inside. But
> as it is more invasive, this should be rather made in an -rc1.
> 
> Fixes this build error:
> 
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1594: error: implicit declaration of function 
> 'ptrace_get_breakpoints' make[2]: ***
> 
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Cc: LPPC <[email protected]>
> Cc: Prasad <[email protected]>
> Cc: v2.6.33.. <[email protected]>

This patch applied after I tweaked it to the .38-stable tree, but it
doesn't apply at all to 2.6.33-stable.  If someone wants to see it
there, please send a backported patch to [email protected].

_______________________________________________
stable mailing list
[email protected]
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable

Reply via email to