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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland•pl>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists•sourceforge.net, amitkale@linsyssoft•com,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	jason.wessel@windriver•com
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:47:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822124743.fc316963.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708222104.29432.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:04:28 +0200
Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland•pl> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 	Got that on imac g3.
> 
>   CC      kernel/kgdb.o
> kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'kgdb_handle_exception':
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_o_'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_n_'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
> kernel/kgdb.c:940: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'type name'
> make[1]: *** [kernel/kgdb.o] Blad 1
> make: *** [kernel] Blad 2
> 

I'm not surprised.

	while (cmpxchg(&atomic_read(&debugger_active), 0, (procid + 1)) != 0) {

a) cmpxchg isn't available on all architectures

b) we can't just go and take the address of atomic_read()'s return value!

c) that's pretty ugly-looking stuff anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070822020648.5ea3a612.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:04 ` 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-08-22 19:47   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-22 22:44     ` [Kgdb-bugreport] " Jason Wessel
2007-08-22 23:53       ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-23  3:25         ` Jason Wessel
2007-08-29 23:43           ` Pete/Piet Delaney
2007-08-30  0:05             ` Pete/Piet Delaney
2007-08-30  1:19             ` Pete/Piet Delaney
2007-08-30  1:38               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-30  2:07               ` Jason Wessel
2007-08-30  2:13               ` Jason Wessel

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