Re: [patch 1/1] Uml: kludgy compilation fixes for x86-64 subarch modules support [for -mm]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 08:45:15PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> 
> These are some trivial fixes for the x86-64 subarch module support. The only
> potential problem is that I have to modify arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c, to
> avoid copying the whole of it.
> 
> I can't use it verbatim because it depends on a special vmalloc-like area for
> modules, which for now (maybe that's to fix, I guess not) UML/x86-64 has not.
> I went the easy way and reused the i386 vmalloc()-based allocator.

Patch is ok for me. Another way would have been to use __attribute__((weak)),
but I guess the ifdef is ok too.

-Andi

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