Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.26-rc8-mm1 - x86 -__ptep_modify_prot_start() missing

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Thu Jul 03 2008 - 15:03:40 EST


On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:35 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.o] Error 1
> > >> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> > >>
> > >> linux-next patches has the changes to the adds the function
> > >> __ptep_modify_prot_start as inline, the patch s390-build-fixes.patch
> > >> is coverting it into macro. Reverting the s390-build-fixes.patch
> > >> fixes the build failure.
> > >>
> > >
> > > grump. Who did all this stuff?
> > >
> > > I dunno. I'll drop s390-build-fixes.patch, add some ccs and stomp off.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > In file included from include/asm/pgtable.h:1087,
> > > from include/linux/mm.h:39,
> > > from arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c:8:
> > > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function '__ptep_modify_prot_start':
> > > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:209: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > >
> >
> > We can't turn them into macros because we're expecting to be able to
> > take the address of __ptep_modify_prot_start/commit. What type is not
> > defined on s390 at that point? Would simply adding an extra include to
> > arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c fix the problem?

We need struct task_struct... I added an include <linux/sched.h> to
asm-s390/pgtable.h and it seems to fix the build problem.
I expected include dependency hell...

> > In the worst case we could push __ptep_modify_proc_start/commit out of
> > line somewhere appropriate, but that's a bit sad given how simple they are.
>
> I think the s390 guys just fixed the original build error.

Not this one, but if it works I'm going to push that to git-s390.
Currently wading through the s390 build bugs in linux-next and trying to
fix them all :/
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