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From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/clz_tab.c: put in lib-y rather than obj-y
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:41:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450806084-26727-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com> (raw)

The clz table (__clz_tab) in lib/clz_tab.c is also provided as part
of libgcc.a, and many architectures link against libgcc.  To allow
the linker to avoid a multiple-definition link failure, clz_tab.o
has to be in lib/lib.a rather than lib/builtin.o.  The specific
issue is that libgcc.a comes before lib/builtin.o on vmlinux.o's
link command line, so its _clz.o is pulled to satisfy __clz_tab,
and then when the remainder of lib/builtin.o is pulled in to satisfy
all the other dependencies, the __clz_tab symbols conflict.  By
putting clz_tab.o in lib.a, the linker can simply avoid pulling
it into vmlinux.o when this situation arises.

The definitions of __clz_tab are the same in libgcc.a and in the
kernel; arguably we could also simply rename the kernel version,
but it's unlikely the libgcc version will ever change to become
incompatible, so just using it seems reasonably safe.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
---
I have this in the tile tree for linux-next since it broke tilepro,
but perhaps it makes more sense for it to get pushed through
Andrew's tree or somewhere else?

 lib/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 7f1de26613d2..8487893b4deb 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GLOB) += glob.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MPILIB) += mpi/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SIGNATURE) += digsig.o
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_CLZ_TAB) += clz_tab.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_CLZ_TAB) += clz_tab.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_DDR) += jedec_ddr_data.o
 
-- 
2.1.2


             reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 17:41 UTC|newest]

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2015-12-22 17:41 Chris Metcalf [this message]
2015-12-22 17:46 ` David Miller

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