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silo fails to build with e2fsprogs-1.41.14 (undefined references to posix_memalign)

Message ID 1295285727.13721.8.camel@lithium
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Alex Buell Jan. 17, 2011, 5:35 p.m. UTC
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:23 +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:02 +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> 
> > >> -    malloc_ptr = (char *) ((((unsigned long) malloc_ptr) + 7)&
> (~7));
> > >> +    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 7UL);
> > I think that should be 8UL because align_ptr_to does -1 to make it
> 7.
> 
> > >> +    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 7UL);
> > Ditto
> 
> That would explain the different error, this time it was 256, the
> previous error was -1^32. 
> 
> I'll change the patch with the new values and see if that works. 

Well done, that fixed the problem. Thank you. For anyone who's
interested, here's the patch in full with Richard Mortimer's changes:

     if (m == last_alloc)

Comments

David Miller Jan. 17, 2011, 9:12 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:35:27 +0000

> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:23 +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:02 +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
>> 
>> > >> -    malloc_ptr = (char *) ((((unsigned long) malloc_ptr) + 7)&
>> (~7));
>> > >> +    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 7UL);
>> > I think that should be 8UL because align_ptr_to does -1 to make it
>> 7.
>> 
>> > >> +    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 7UL);
>> > Ditto
>> 
>> That would explain the different error, this time it was 256, the
>> previous error was -1^32. 
>> 
>> I'll change the patch with the new values and see if that works. 
> 
> Well done, that fixed the problem. Thank you. For anyone who's
> interested, here's the patch in full with Richard Mortimer's changes:

Thanks a lot, sorry for the stupid thinko :-)
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David Miller Jan. 17, 2011, 9:14 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:35:27 +0000

> Well done, that fixed the problem. Thank you. For anyone who's
> interested, here's the patch in full with Richard Mortimer's changes:

The final working version is pushed to the silo GIT repo, please
double check that it works fine there too.

Thanks!
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Patch

diff -uNr silo-1.4.14/second/fs/ext2.c silo/second/fs/ext2.c
--- a/common/malloc.c
+++ b/common/malloc.c
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@  static char *malloc_ptr = (char *) MALLOC_BASE;
 
 static char *last_alloc = 0;
 
+static char *align_ptr_to(char *ptr, unsigned long align)
+{
+    return (char *) ((((unsigned long) ptr) + (align - 1UL)) &
+                    ~(align - 1UL));
+}
+
 void *malloc (int size)
 {
     char *caddr;
@@ -34,10 +40,34 @@  void *malloc (int size)
     caddr = malloc_ptr;
     malloc_ptr += size;
     last_alloc = caddr;
-    malloc_ptr = (char *) ((((unsigned long) malloc_ptr) + 7) & (~7));
+    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 8UL);
     return caddr;
 }
 
+int posix_memalign(void **memptr, unsigned long alignment, unsigned
long size)
+{
+    char *caddr;
+
+    if (alignment & (alignment - 1UL))
+        return -1;
+    if (alignment & (sizeof(void *) - 1UL))
+        return -1;
+
+    if (size == 0) {
+      *memptr = (void *) 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+    caddr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, alignment);
+    malloc_ptr = (caddr + size);
+    last_alloc = caddr;
+    malloc_ptr = align_ptr_to(malloc_ptr, 8UL);
+
+    *memptr = caddr;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 void free (void *m)
 {