Re: [patch] 2.4.6-pre3 unresolved symbol do_softirq

[David S. Miller]

Keith Owens writes:
 > It works for integers but call do_softirq is more of a problem.  I
 > could not find an asm constraint that generated correct code in a
 > single instruction.  The closest I could get was
 >   __asm__("call *%%eax" : : "a" (do_softirq));
 > The 'obvious'
 >   __asm__("call %0" : : "m" (do_softirq));
 > calls to a location that contains the address of do_softirq, oops.
 > 
 > Any other architectures that call do_softirq inside asm would need
 > similar hard coding of indirect branches.  It is simpler to export
 > do_softirq with no version, and have cleaner asm.

Why doesn't this work on x86?

#define my_symbol	my_symbol_versioned
extern void my_symbol(void);

__asm__("call %0" : : "i" (my_symbol));

Later,
David S. Miller
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