Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 04:10:22 EST


On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 16:44 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> mm/fremap.c: In function 'SYSC_remap_file_pages':
> mm/fremap.c:241:22: error: 'struct address_space' has no member named 'i_mmap_mutex'
> mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> ^
> mm/fremap.c:247:24: error: 'struct address_space' has no member named 'i_mmap_mutex'
> mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> ^
>
> Caused by commit 1f8c97e79f66 ("mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem").
>
> I applied this patch for today (not sure if there is a better way):
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:26:41 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem fix
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/fremap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/fremap.c b/mm/fremap.c
> index 9129013732d7..2805d71cf476 100644
> --- a/mm/fremap.c
> +++ b/mm/fremap.c
> @@ -238,13 +238,13 @@ get_write_lock:
> }
> goto out_freed;
> }
> - mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> + i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);

That's the correct fix, thanks. However, I had particularly dropped that
modification because linux-next no longer even has mm/fremap.c so I'm
not sure what went wrong here...

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