linux/arch/ia64/include
Tejun Heo 126b3fcdec ia64: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end
If CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP is enabled, ia64 defines macro VMALLOC_END
as unsigned long variable vmalloc_end which is adjusted to prepare
room for vmemmap.  This becomes probnlematic if a local variables
vmalloc_end is defined in some function (not very unlikely) and
VMALLOC_END is used in the function - the function thinks its
referencing the global VMALLOC_END value but would be referencing its
own local vmalloc_end variable.

There's no reason VMALLOC_END should be a macro.  Just define it as an
unsigned long variable if CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP is set to avoid nasty
surprises.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-02 13:28:55 +09:00
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asm ia64: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end 2009-10-02 13:28:55 +09:00