fork: Remove the weak insanity

We error out when compiling with gcc4.1.[01] as it miscompiles __weak. The workaround with magic defines is not longer necessary. Make it __weak again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
VadimAlexeev · May 8, 2012 · 6c0a9fa · 6c0a9fa
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diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 extern struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node);
 extern void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti);
 extern void arch_task_cache_init(void);
-#define arch_task_cache_init arch_task_cache_init
 extern int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src);
 extern void init_thread_xstate(void);
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -284,6 +284,5 @@ static inline bool is_ia32_task(void)
 extern void arch_task_cache_init(void);
 extern void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti);
 extern int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src);
-#define arch_task_cache_init arch_task_cache_init
 #endif
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_THREAD_INFO_H */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -203,13 +203,7 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
 
-/*
- * macro override instead of weak attribute alias, to workaround
- * gcc 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 bugs with weak attribute and empty functions.
- */
-#ifndef arch_task_cache_init
-#define arch_task_cache_init()
-#endif
+void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
 
 void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)
 {