Symbol not found?

Hi,
My Source Insight (a code reading software) could not find the definition of the symbol "_mfn", then I searched for the whole project of source files but still couldn't find it's definition. How can that be??? Thanks in advance.

Here's the code:

Code:

static inline mfn_t gfn_to_mfn(struct domain *d, unsigned long gfn)
{
    if ( !paging_mode_translate(d) )
        return _mfn(gfn); /* It is HERE. */
    if ( likely(current->domain == d) )
        return gfn_to_mfn_current(gfn);
    else 
        return gfn_to_mfn_foreign(d, gfn);
}

So does it compile?

maybe it's a define.

I think it does, for the code is from a release version of an open source project. Could that symbol be something related with the compiler? But "_mfn" which stands for "Machine Frame Number" doesn't look like a compiler-related thing.

Originally Posted by robwhit

maybe it's a define.

But, if such is the case, I'd have been able to find it by search. I'm at a loss.

Have you done a simple text search as opposed to any kind of symbol lookup?

Yes, I did the simple string search, and only found the using of the _mfn macro/function or whatever.

Well if it compiles, then it must be in a file which isn't in your project.

Perhaps try a directory search using explorer, or say "grep -R" to search all the files in the project tree.

Another possibility is that it is a constructed symbol by some clever use of the ## pre-processor operator to construct the symbol on the fly at compile time. Such symbols would be invisible to the likes of SI.

Originally Posted by Salem

Well if it compiles, then it must be in a file which isn't in your project.

Perhaps try a directory search using explorer, or say "grep -R" to search all the files in the project tree.

Still no satisfying result
Someone might be kind enough to have a try. The source of the whole project is here:
http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/re...-3.1.0-src.tgz

A couple of things to try

1. Compile that source file with the "-E" flag to see whether _mfn is a real symbol, or something which was substituted using a macro.

2. Link with the "--trace-symbol=symbol" option of the linker to get a report of where the symbol is declared and used.