Re: [PATCH] frv: fix build failure

[Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>]

Hi Sudip,

On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 23:01 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 05:17:19PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Sudip,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 22:10 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > 
> > > The frv defconfig build is failing with the error:
> > > lib/mpi/mpih-div.o: In function `mpihelp_divrem':
> > > mpih-div.c:(.text+0x30c): undefined reference to `abort'
> > > 
> > > The function 'abort' was never defined for the frv architecture.
> > > Create 'abort' as is done in other arch like 'arm' and 'unicore32'.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > I'm seeing the same issue building for ARC from today's Linus' tree.
> > Maybe it worth implementing abort() as a weak function for every arch/platform
> > that doesn't have it explicitly defined? Otherwise we'll end-up with
> > useless code duplication.
> 
> Do you mean define it for every arch or define it in a common place so
> that all arch can use it?

Essentially I'd prefer to have just 1 instance of this function.
In fact I'd even remove existing implementations in ARM, Unicore32 and M32R
and have a generic implementation as this function obviously has nothing arch-specific.

> I did a quick try with the attached patch on two different arch, one of
> them (m32r) has the 'abort' defined and the other (frv) was failing due
> to lack of abort, and they both built without any warnings or errors.

Well maybe add  call to panic() there as well as it is done for ARM, unicore32 and M32R?

> But I am not sure if 'kernel/exit.c' is the right place for it.
> Any suggestion?

I guess it should be indeed something in "kernel/" and maybe your existing choice
of "kernel/exit.c" is not bad. Just send a patch to LKML and you'll get much better
guidance on that I guess :)

Anyways thanks for looking at this one.

-Alexey