On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 15:21 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > again, probably displaying my abject ignorance, but i wrote a
> > trivial module that tries to "var % 15", and i get:
> >
> > WARNING: "__moddi3" undefined!
> >
> > and, not surprisingly, when i try to insmod:
> >
> > insmod: error inserting 'seq.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
> >
> > (using 16 rather than 15 works fine, as i assume that the modulus
> > call is simply replaced by an optimized bitwise comparison.)
> >
> > so ... from where comes __moddi3? i know there are places in the
> > kernel source tree that do non-power-of-2 moduli, and they work fine,
> > no? thanks.
>
> let me guess, 32 bit kernel, and var is 64 bit?
um ... yeah. duh. var type is actually loff_t. i should have
realized that.
> gcc translates that into a libgcc call, which we _explicitly_ do not
> have because 64bit divisions are expensive!
>
> use do_div().
gotcha. thanks.
rday
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