Re: 3.8-rc1 build failure with MIPS/SPARSEMEM

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 10:15:31 EST


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:38:50PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 02:16:07PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:34:35AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > On MIPS if SPARSEMEM is enabled we've got this:
> > >
> > > In file included from /home/kas/git/public/linux/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h:552,
> > > from include/linux/mm.h:44,
> > > from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
> > > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function âmy_zero_pfnâ:
> > > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: error: implicit declaration of function âpage_to_sectionâ
> > > In file included from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
> > > include/linux/mm.h: At top level:
> > > include/linux/mm.h:738: error: conflicting types for âpage_to_sectionâ
> > > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: note: previous implicit declaration of âpage_to_sectionâ was here
> > >
> > > Due header files inter-dependencies, the only way I see to fix it is
> > > convert my_zero_pfn() for __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE to macros.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks, this works.
> >
> > Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>
>
> Andrew, could you take the patch?

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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