Re: linux-2.4.9: atomic_dec_and_lock sometimes used while not defined

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
17 Aug 2001 12:15:56 +0200


>>>>> " " == Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
>> If I try to build a kernel that can do SMP and run on a 386,
>> the linux-2.4.9 NFS client gets compiled with an undefined
>> reference to atomic_dec_and_lock().

Bummer I found the bug. It's not a missing define, but a missing
export...

Cheers,
Trond

diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.9.orig/lib/Makefile linux-2.4.9/lib/Makefile
--- linux-2.4.9.orig/lib/Makefile Wed Apr 25 22:31:03 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9/lib/Makefile Fri Aug 17 11:52:35 2001
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o

ifneq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK),y)
+ export-objs += dec_and_lock.o
obj-y += dec_and_lock.o
endif

diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.9.orig/lib/dec_and_lock.c linux-2.4.9/lib/dec_and_lock.c
--- linux-2.4.9.orig/lib/dec_and_lock.c Sat Jul 8 01:22:48 2000
+++ linux-2.4.9/lib/dec_and_lock.c Fri Aug 17 11:55:02 2001
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>

@@ -34,4 +35,6 @@
spin_unlock(lock);
return 0;
}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(atomic_dec_and_lock);
#endif
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