sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 5:59 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b2e2fe...
Commit:     b2e2fe99628c4f944c3075258e536197b5a4f3f8
Parent:     12026ea16a618b289fcf457661aed24f57323a20
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 29 00:16:45 2008 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Mon Dec 29 00:19:55 2008 +0100

    sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
    
    Impact: fix boot crash if the kernel is built with certain GCC versions
    
    GCC has a bug with __weak alias functions: if the functions are in
    the same compilation unit as their call site, GCC can decide to
    inline them - and thus rob the linker of the opportunity to override
    the weak alias with the real thing.
    
    This can lead to the boot crash reported by Kamalesh Babulal:
    
     ACPI: Core revision 20080926
     Setting APIC routing to flat
     BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
     0000000000000000
     IP: [<ffffffff8021f9a8>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x74
     PGD 0
     Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
     [...]
    
    So move the arch_init_chip_data() function from handle.c to manage.c.
    
    Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/irq/handle.c |    5 -----
 kernel/irq/manage.c |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c
index 157c04c..c20db0b 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/handle.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c
@@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ void init_kstat_irqs(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu, int nr)
 		desc->kstat_irqs = (unsigned int *)ptr;
 }
 
-int __weak arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static void init_one_irq_desc(int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
 {
 	memcpy(desc, &irq_desc_init, sizeof(struct irq_desc));
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 46953a0..c2741b0 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -261,6 +261,15 @@ void enable_irq(unsigned int irq)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(enable_irq);
 
+/*
+ * [ Not in kernel/irq/handle.c, so that GCC does not
+ *   inline the __weak alias: ]
+ */
+int __weak arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int set_irq_wake_real(unsigned int irq, unsigned int on)
 {
 	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
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