Re: [next:akpm 129/309] net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializerelement is not constant

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Jul 23 2012 - 07:16:36 EST


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:30:58AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> To be frank, I don't quite understand this build failure..
>
> tree: next/akpm akpm
> head: 37e2ad4953983527f7bdb6831bf478eedcc84082
> commit: 799dc3a908b1df8b766c35aefc24c1b5356aa051 [129/309] netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
> config: parisc-defconfig (attached as .config)
>
> All related error/warning messages:
>
> net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
> net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
> net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
>

It looks parisc specific so am adding some parisc because this builds but
I am less sure if it is actually correct. If it's correct, it should be
appear before the swap-over-nfs patches to avoid bisection problems.
I've added some parisc folk for review.

---8<---
parisc: Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT like other architectures

The following build error occured during a parisc build with
swap-over-NFS patches applied.

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

It's not obvious but this is due to how ATOMIC_INIT is defined on
parisc. It should affect any user of STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE on that
platform.

This patch makes the definition of ATOMIC_INIT on parisc to look like
other arches definition.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h
index 6c6defc..af9cf30 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static __inline__ int __atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u)

#define atomic_sub_and_test(i,v) (atomic_sub_return((i),(v)) == 0)

-#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) ((atomic_t) { (i) })
+#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) { (i) }

#define smp_mb__before_atomic_dec() smp_mb()
#define smp_mb__after_atomic_dec() smp_mb()
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static __inline__ int __atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u)

#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT

-#define ATOMIC64_INIT(i) ((atomic64_t) { (i) })
+#define ATOMIC64_INIT(i) { (i) }

static __inline__ s64
__atomic64_add_return(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
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