From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Tomoyo compile failure on alpha: sys_get[p]pid undefined
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:51:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924075116.GA2303@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1009240906200.9058@math.ut.ee>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:10:37AM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> 2.6.36-rc5+git as of yesterday:
>
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xea98): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeab0): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeac0): undefined reference to `sys_getppid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeac4): undefined reference to `sys_getppid'
>
> Seems alpha has different mechanisms for using these syscalls from
> inside the kernel?
The real problem is that kernel code should never call system calls.
The correct fix is to get rid of this abuse.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-24 6:10 Meelis Roos
2010-09-24 6:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-09-24 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-24 10:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-09-27 3:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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