Re: [PATCH] openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 01:15:59 EST


On (12/13/17 14:12), Joel Stanley wrote:
> The printk tree in linux-next has a patch "symbol lookup: introduce
> dereference_symbol_descriptor()" that includes sections.h in kallsyms.h,
> so arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c gets a second extern definition for
> _etext and _stext.
>
> Remove the local definitions and include sections.h directly in
> preparation for the kallsyms.h change.
>
> This fixes the following (future) build error:
>
> CC arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.o
> arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c:43:13: error: conflicting types for â_etextâ
> extern char _etext, _stext;
> ^
> In file included from ./arch/openrisc/include/generated/asm/sections.h:1:0,
> from ./include/linux/kallsyms.h:15,
> from arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c:35:
> ./include/asm-generic/sections.h:35:32: note: previous declaration of â_etextâ was here
> extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[];
> ^
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

-ss

> ---
> arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c
> index 4085d72fa5ae..5fb6d512502d 100644
> --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -39,8 +39,7 @@
> #include <asm/io.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> #include <asm/unwinder.h>
> -
> -extern char _etext, _stext;
> +#include <asm/sections.h>
>
> int kstack_depth_to_print = 0x180;
> int lwa_flag;
> --
> 2.14.1
>